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How does lung cancer cause wheezing? would this wheezing be resolved with asthma inhalers?
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Think plumbing...: There are airways in the lungs, for example the larger air tubes. Where there are no disorders, air flows smoothly out of the tubes and we do not hear noise. When there is some blockage to the outflow of air in those tubes, we hear wheezing sounds. There are many ways to partially block tubes, and cancer is an uncommon way, but it can happen. Inhalers can make the tubes bigger and less wheezy.
Answered 11/13/2019
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