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I'm having radiation therapy for pain from metastatic breast cancer (in my shoulders) does it cause fatigue? i am exhausted. when does it go away?
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Fatigue is a common side effect of radiation and a notorious sign of progressing cancer. Radiation will help stabilize metastatic lesions and time will offer eventually the delineation between radiation side effect ( transient effect) and progressing cancer, persistent effect.
Answered 1/9/2022
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