I can only share my story and each of our paths are as different as we are each a unique person. I was diagnosed in November 2022. After signing the papers for a lumpectomy, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, my sister (who is a doctor and 32 year breast cancer survivor) shared one study of the risk for radition induced pulmonary fibrosis (I have a family history of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis). I needed to put the brakes on scheduling surgery until I was able to talk with my surgeon, pulmonologist and the radiation oncologist. After I, with my husband, met with the radiation oncologist I had such a sense of peace. The radiation oncologist was able to show me how she would do the radiation treatments and how a deep inhalation breath hold technique would help move the lungs out of the targeted area. I'm sure part of the reason that this worked for me was the location of the tumor site. One of the comments my pulmonologist said during our conversation was that in his 40 years of practice he had only seen 2 cases of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis. I have be seeing him for at least 20 years.