RADIATION FIBROSIS

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many Member Posts: 254
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

hello

MY WIFE COMPLETED CHEMO ( FEC X 4 +TAXOTERE X 4) FOLLOWED BY RADIATIONS (IGRT)  TO AUXILLA ,SUPERACLAVCULAR FOSSSA AND INTERNAL MAMMRYCHAIN ON 11TH FEB 2012( TOTAL 50GY)

HAD A USG AND CHEST X RAY YESTERDAY

ALL RESULTS CLEAR AND NORMAL

THE X RAY JUST SHOWS A NOTE------ NOTE MINIMAL FIBROSIS IN MIDDLE RIGHT LOBE, REST OF THE LUNGS ARE CLEAR

MY DOCTOR SAID THAT FIBROSIS IS COMMON AND SEEN IN ALLMOST ALL WOMEN HAVING TAKEN RADIATIONS ON BREAST AREA 

PLZ LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS COMMON AND NOTHING TO BE WORRIIED ABOUT

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  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited April 2012

    Hi Many, Glad to see your wife's tx is coming along andeverything is all clear.  As far as I know I don't have fibrosis yet but I was warned this could happen.  I had my intermammary zapped also and they had to hit my heart so they warned me that it could cause problems in the future also.  They try to avoid the heart but couldn't in my case due to the intermammary. 

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  • Kathleen26
    Kathleen26 Member Posts: 210
    edited April 2012

    I recently had a chest CT scan and was told there was some fibrosis on the side I had radiation on, and that it was very common.   I don't have any symptoms from it.   Since nothing can really be done about it and it's not causing me any problems, I don't worry about it.

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  • lifelover
    lifelover Member Posts: 553
    edited April 2012

    I've had some fibrosis in my lungs since radiation in 1994.  It doesn't bother me at all.  And, I play a woodwind instrument, the oboe, which takes a lot of lung power.  My radiation onc from 1994 told me that it would be great exercise for my lungs to keep playing the oboe.  And this I have done with passion!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2012

    Lifelover:  Why and/or how did you have radiation 18 years ago?  And where in UK do you live? Have been there twice and relatives in Cornwall. 

     Shelly

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  • beegee
    beegee Member Posts: 32
    edited July 2012

    I am so glad that I read this thread.  I completed radiation on April 2 this year, and in the last three or so weeks, I have had an intermittent cough.  I'd have these spells a few times a day that would last a few minutes, and then go away.  I kept telling myself (hoping) that it's just a cold or virus, but otherwise, not sick feeling at all.  I have an onc appt on Aug 2, so I can ask about it then, and, hopefully confirm that I'm ok. 

    But just knowing that it could be radiation fibrosis, and not lung cancer is very hopeful for me. I was never told about radiation fibrosis during my treatments.

    Shelly, your tag line is funny! 

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  • bevin
    bevin Member Posts: 1,902
    edited July 2012

    I read an article on the Pub med site and will post link if I can find it; the percent chance quoted in the article of getting radiation fibrosis was around 3%.

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