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Suspicous upper lobe densities are seen
My mom is a breast cancer survivor, 3 years and counting. She just had her chest xray as part of her 6minth routine checkup and the result shows "suspicious upper lobe densities are seen. Suggested apico lordotic view for further evaluation" , is this something to be concerned about? :( she dont have any couhh or any respiratory symptoms
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Dr. Padmaj S. Kulkarni
Medical Oncologist
23 yrs exp
Pune
It will be better to get a CT scan of the chest done to clarify the doubt. Breast cancer recurrence is always a risk but there can be many other reasons to have those densities, if they really exist.
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