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Jojo -- I can't remember, do you have lung mets? If not, your effusions might be from taxotere (or maybe other chemo can do this too?) I've talked to other women who also had pleural effusions as a result of taxotere. It was really scary when my lungs would fill up I could breathe okay just sitting, but I couldn't walk from my house to my car without gasping for breathe. I had to have thoracentisis (fluid drained from the lung) 4 different times over about a 2 month period; each time about 1 liter was removed. The tests never showed any cancer cells in the fluid, so I'm sure it was s/e from taxotere. The fluid started when I was on taxotere & once I quit taxotere & finally got rid of the effusions they never came back. Pam
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