What else could cause a shadow on the lung?

[Carpetbeetle]

Has anyone experience of this where it turned out not to be something awful?

I have a friend who has been treated for a different cancer and is having a scan this week to see if she is Ok now.

Apparently they found a shadow last time but thought it might have been caused by a chest infection? Is that right, that it could be something innocuous?

I am terrified for her.

Mmmm, normally is cancer. Happened to my dad. But they can remove one lung successfully, did you know that?

yes it can be an infection. Not that knowledgable about it all though - good luck to her.

Thankyou - it's scary because she has had ovarian cancer, which they thought they had removed in surgery, and then followed with lots of chemo.

I have been reading up a bit and found that secondary cancers in ovarian cancer carry a very high non survival rate

Am just praying that someone is looking down on her this week, and it isn't that. She has a two year old child.

(sorry am a regular btw)

Sorry to hear the news though . all the best to you all and big hugs. She will need loads of support, and my heart and prayers go out to her and her family.

Thanks Wolfgirl

They (the medics) found a shadow on dd's lung, it was pneumonia

An elderly neighbour had a shadow on his lung diagnmi=osed a few weeks back and it was just a chest infection.

Oh, those are reassuring, thankyou so much
Hoping it was just an infection then.

we have patients with shadows on their lungs and i would say quite a few tend to be infection, or related to old infections, scarring etc..

Agree with ema

DS also had a shadow which was pneumonia; he was given very strong ABs from the GP

My mum had this - was caused by pneumonia.