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Any Suggestion For Cough, Fever, Losing Weight When Suffering From Pancreatic Cancer?

My mom was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer last February with no chance of surgery. She has been taking chemo for 3 Mondays on then 1 Monday off. Mom has lost a lot of weight (down to 112) and she is really sleeping a lot. Now in the past couple weeks she has developed a slight cough but yesterday she had a cough that sounded like it had a lot of fluid in her chest and her temp got up to 101. She says she s fine but I think she should get checked out. What do you think?
posted on Mon, 17 Mar 2014
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In my opinion you should first get done chest x ray to rule out chest infection and pleural effusion.
Since your mother is having pancreatic cancer and on chemotherapy, chances of lung infection are high because chemotherapy makes person immunosuppressive and more prone to infection.
Another possibility is malignant pleural effusion due to spread of tumour in pleurae.
So better to rule out all these by chest x ray first.
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Any Suggestion For Cough, Fever, Losing Weight When Suffering From Pancreatic Cancer?

Thanks for your question on HCM. In my opinion you should first get done chest x ray to rule out chest infection and pleural effusion. Since your mother is having pancreatic cancer and on chemotherapy, chances of lung infection are high because chemotherapy makes person immunosuppressive and more prone to infection. Another possibility is malignant pleural effusion due to spread of tumour in pleurae. So better to rule out all these by chest x ray first.