It would really have more to do with the location than anything else, I suspect, so I don't think one person's experience would be applicable to another person's. If anything, people with scarring from prior treatments in the lungs tend to have a lower risk of lung collapse from a biopsy because the lung is often tacked up against chest wall from prior treatments or scarred and attached to other structures that keep it from collapsing..
Reply # - May 20, 2013, 08:01 PM
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What is going on? Are you talking about yourself? Fill us in! Thinking of you Lorrie!
Reply # - May 20, 2013, 09:16 PM
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It would really have more to do with the location than anything else, I suspect, so I don't think one person's experience would be applicable to another person's. If anything, people with scarring from prior treatments in the lungs tend to have a lower risk of lung collapse from a biopsy because the lung is often tacked up against chest wall from prior treatments or scarred and attached to other structures that keep it from collapsing..
Good luck.
-Dr. West
Reply # - May 21, 2013, 06:00 PM
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Hmmmm. . .everything OK, Judy???
Laya
Reply # - May 21, 2013, 07:14 PM
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This would be in the bottom right lobe closer to the spine that had previous radiation. I'm fine Laya.
Take care, Judy