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Can anxiety cause shortness of breath that is not hyperventilling? after clear chest x-ray, dr doesn't want to do more testing? scared its lung cancer

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Anxiety: Anxiety frequently causes shortness of breath. Lung cancer would only cause shortness of breath if it were advanced and that would show up on chest xray.

Answered 9/28/2016

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