Lung
Other nonneoplastic disease
Radiation induced lung disease
Author: Elliot Weisenberg, M.D.
Last author update: 1 December 2011
Last staff update: 28 August 2020
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Clinical features
- Incidence of severe disease decreasing due to better therapeutic modalities
- Symptoms: fever, shortness of breath, radiologic infiltrates, diffuse alveolar damage and type II pneumocyte atypia
- Acute radiation pneumonitis: 1 - 6 months after therapy, occurs in 10% - 20% of patients
- Chronic radiation pneumonitis: interstitial fibrosis, epithelial atypia and foam cells in vessel walls
Treatment
- Steroids
