Advice needed -Adenocarcinoma lung resection

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this board. My mother (73) was enrolled in a hi-def CT scan program because of her heavy smoking history and so was being monitored for a number of lung nodules -- one of which, located in her upper right lobe, grew to a size of 3 cmx 1.7cm and required a surgical VATS at the University of Minnesota. She just came home on Saturday and is recovering well -- we had learned in the hosptial that it was NSLC - Adenocarcinoma. We were waiting on the pathology but she only spoke to a nurse who said that no further treatment was needed because the margins were clean and no lymph nodes were involved. They forwarded the full pathology on to her primary doctor -- where we will go on Wednesday.
I am curious as to what questions I should ask. I am somewhat familliar with staging and grading because of my best friend's cancer battle (though it was with breast cancer). I am anticipating, given its size that it will be T1aN0M0.
Is there any evidence that chemo or radiation is useful in addition to the resection at this early stage? I was shocked and scared to see that the early stages 5-year prognosis and am wondering if the accepted treatment after resection is always just scans/waiting.
Thank you for your time,
Pam in Minnesota
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