“Terminal lung cancer” is a doctor’s opinion. And ask two doctors for an opinion on the same patient, and you will get an argument. Some of the finest research organizations in the world are working on lung cancer right now, and each is going in their own direction, with everything too new to know what the others are doing.
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“Terminal lung cancer” was the doctors', plural, opinion diagnosis and my husband died from it, as predicted. He HAD smoked. He even had one lung removed to try to stop the spread. No chance for survival.
My mother had lung cancer too, but hers was cured when the doctors took out 20% of her lower right lung lobe. She lived to be 94. They NEVER did tell her "terminal lung cancer." She had never smoked and her kind of lung cancer was the kind that any person of any age, either gender or any locale could get.
SOMETHINGS the doctors DO have down pat.
Also, the doctors that I have dealt with ALWAYS say: opinion or diagnosis. There is no reason on earth for them to say "opinion" when death is imminent.