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Radiation: When do side effects show?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Apr 22 11:42am | Replies (25)

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Last 2 weeks of radiation I had 2nd degree burns. Very painful but pain meds helped. The burns healed quickly in the 2 weeks following radiation. Bad news was that on scans of the thorax “issues” showed up after radiation. Lung looked hazy, some areas of opacity. So for the past 5 years it hasn’t gone away. I have no respiratory symptoms otherwise but I eventually saw a pulmonologist who said I have post-radiation pulmonary fibrosis. He said the lung tissue was burned along with the outside skin. He was/ is puzzled that I have no symptoms. I am seeing another pulmonologist at the end of this month.

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Wow sorry to hear this. How many treatments did you have? My radiation treatments were side to side they did not go directly down so my oncologist told me there was no way it would hit my lungs