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The possibility of radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis

Published: 2024-11-10 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/10, Among the causes of pulmonary fibrosis, there are pneumoconiosis, interstitial pneumonia, "mushroom lung 001, parrot lung, humidifier lung, air conditioning lung, drug lung, radiation lung", and so on. There is also a kind of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, including physical fibrosis,.

Among the causes of pulmonary fibrosis, there are pneumoconiosis, interstitial pneumonia,"mushroom lung 001, parrot lung, humidifier lung, air conditioning lung, drug lung, radiation lung", etc. There is also idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, specifically including idiopathic fibrosis, familial idiopathic pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, acute interstitial pneumonia, desquamative interstitial pneumonia, non-specific interstitial pneumonia, lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia, autoimmune pulmonary interstitial fibrosis.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis chest radiograph

Among them, pulmonary fibrosis caused by radiation attracts people's attention very much, mainly refers to receiving radiation therapy. When radiation therapy is used to treat diseases, normal tissues and cells within the radiation range will also be damaged, thus causing inflammation. If it is severe, the pulmonary stroma tends to develop fibrosis. Receiving and using radiation for radiation therapy, mainly lung cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer and other cancers in the chest.

Pulmonary fibrosis developed by radiation exposure is easy to form in a large range. Therefore, when radiotherapy is used to treat cancer such as lung cancer, there will be a physical form of individual reflection based on objectivity such as constitution. In fact, some patients with lung cancer do not improve after radiotherapy, or after a short time, the condition deteriorates again, among which there are also reasons for pulmonary fibrosis.

Before and after pulmonary fibrosis treatment

Because in symptoms, lung cancer and other lower respiratory tract cancer, and pulmonary fibrosis symptoms are almost the same, there will be dry cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, occasional fever and other symptoms, if radiation therapy is used to treat breast cancer, esophageal cancer, the above symptoms appear, especially shortness of breath is more obvious, it must be pulmonary fibrosis phenomenon and symptoms.

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