my Mother had lung cancer, stage 3B (16 months) and one lung collasped. They did surgery, scraping the chest wall and using talc to attach lung back to chest wall. Surgery went well, she came home 4 days later. We all were going on a cruise 6 days after she came home, we checked into our cabin and she laid down to rest, she coughed, spit it out, it was blood (never had happened before) and she then started vomiting blood, after 3 times of that, blood literally started pumping out of her mouth and nose, within 5 minutes she was dead. I cannot understand what made her bleed like this? It haunts me, it was so fast and unexpected. Don't get me wrong, I thank God if she had to go it was fast, but what happened to cause that? An autopsy was done and they found cirrohsis of the liver-severe, which no doctor ever mentioned before and we all know how much blood work is done to cancer patients. Prior to death she had no bloody cough, no bloody vomit, no bloody stool, no symptoms or liver disease. Does anyone know why might have happened?