Amen, sorry to hear about your friend. Three years ago I had a cough that wouldn't go away. X-ray and found out I had lung cancer. Removed a lobe of my lung that had a tumor the size of a golf ball. I was blessed, It hadn't spread. As I stated in my thread about being worried and nervous,,, I had a CT Scan last week to see if I'm still cancer free. Haven't got the results back yet. I smoked for 45 years and had quit 3 years before I was diagnosed. Those 3 years may have made the difference. If you smoke QUIT,,, It can happen to you.