Radiation Pneumonitis

  Cancer is bad … treatment side effects can be worse The  most common types of cancers are cancers of the chest, including lung and breast cancer.  One of the most common treatments is radiation therapy.  The most common dose limiting side effect of radiation therapy to the thorax is radiation pneumonitis , or symptomatic burning of the lungs.  There exists a noninvasive painless fast and easy method that's been demonstrated in clinical trials to reliably predict individual radiation pneumonitis. This method uses breath samples to perform the analysis. No cutting, no biopsies, no extra radiation. Radiation pneumonitis generally  takes months to clinically manifest. During those months, inflammation and scar tissue formation, some of which is irreversible, occur.  Early identification of people who are suseptible should allow early treatment, breaking the cycle of inflammation and fibrosis that would otherwise cause clinically significant lung dysfunct...