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How quickly after lung surgery will you know if it was success?
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Depends: Depends on the surgery. For instance, if it was a resection for cancer, the pathology results will take several days.
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Cancer surgery?: It will take days to a week to get the pathology report and even if the specimen suggests "they got it all", it may be years before it can be said it was successful.
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