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If lung cancer were advanced enough to start causing shortness of breath, is it likely that it would show up on x-ray in some form?

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Dr. Silviu Pasniciuc answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

May or may not: Shortness of breath may be explained by metastatic spread, but most of the time is related to conditions related to the cancer, such as clots in the lungs or malignant fluid among others.

Answered 12/4/2019

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