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Would you ever initiate steroids during conventional lung radiotherapy in a patient who develops dry cough during treatment?
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Radiation Oncology · Yale School of Medicine
I have not yet done so, though I would never say never (perhaps worth considering if cough is very severe, if V20 or MLD is very high, and if one can see significant inflammatory changes on CBCT). Instead, I tend to treat the cough with typical supportive medications.