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How are back and shoulder pain related to lung cancer?
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A couple of: Possibilities. If the cancer obstructs an airway you can get pneumonia and then pleurisy. The tumor can also invade the chest wall and cause pain. Finally the cancer can spread to the bones and cause pain in that way.
Answered 7/5/2015
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Pain and Cancer: Spread of the cancer to the chect wall could certainly be a cause.
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