| Subject: | shrinking lung causes shoulder pain |
Dear Krishna,
my father has lung cancer, which has been more or less stabilized with IRESSA. The tumor resides in the right lung, the left lung is clean. It has been almost 3 years now, since he was diagnosed with stage 3.
It seems as if the tissue from the right lung is dying off, and the lung is shrinking and losing it's flexibility (I guess tissue is being replaced by scar-like tissue. Thus it is pulling on the shoulder from the inside, causing pain when my father wants to use his right arm. He uses paracetamol and is planning on getting physiotherapy. That should help, but it is likely to get worse over time.
My question does not concern pain relief as much as how can we keep the pain from coming? Is there a way to challenge the tissue to stop shrinking?
Thanks, Lauw Klaassen
| Posted: 07 Nov 2006 04:25 PM |
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