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Site Admin Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 214 Location: WA

Children treated in childhood for a variety of cancers have a statistically significant increased risk of pulmonary complications later in life, including pulmonary fibrosis, according to a recent study . Risk factors for later development of fibrosis included chest wall radiation and a variety of chemotherapeutic agents.

Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 1

Thanks for the link to the study. I am a childhood cancer survivor and I now suffer with a restrictive lung disease.

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 194 Location: nebraska

me too. i had a bone marrow transplant when i was 12 and i just found out that i have bronchiolitis obliterans, a restrictive airway disease. it is miserable and i really would like to know when they found this link between the two.

Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 1

I too have bronchiolitis obliterans, since 2003. I had a BMT in 1998.
What kind of treatment have you had for it? I am on Advair 500/50.