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Lumpectomy or mastectomy that is the dilema. Any insight would help.
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Can you tell me about the cloudiness on your lungs? I’ve been dealing with that for over 18months now. It was a cycle of on prednisone, taper down, hospitalized couple times when I get down to 5mg. My pulmonologist added antibiotics with the last round. My xray was all clear when I went down to 1mg. When I stopped, cloudiness came back. Lab work is fine. Staying off prednisone for now as I don’t have symptoms. I had mastectomy, radiation. Have expanders and still waiting to remove them due to the prednisone. What’s your treatment plan for your lungs?
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It has always been attributed to radiation and showed up on my fist scan after chemo/radiation ended. At first they said it would go away. It didn’t, however I have good lung function, no cough. So I don’t need to see pulmonologist unless I develop symptoms For a time they were suspecting radiation induced lung injury but no longer. I found one study of breast cancer patients who had a lung scan sometime after radiation. They found a group like me who looked like they had RILI but were otherwise asymptomatic.
If you have pulmonary symptoms the pulmonologist should have an idea if radiation induced lung ng injury is at hand If you had pulmonologist nary symptoms before, radiation may not be a factor?