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Lung cancer?

On the X-ray images of my lungs very many white shadows. My doctors say it is lung cancer, but I have no symptoms and hope it's not cancer.
Does anyone have an idea what it could even be - except cancer? I'm very desperate. Thank you for your help in advance!
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I am a woman, 58 years old, from Germany. In addition to lung cancer, I have big problems and pain, because my pancreas pushes out my gall and I therefore already had about 20 ERCP procedures (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreaticography). I will dying from liver failure before I die of lung cancer. Due diagnosed with lung cancer, nobody  will operates me in Germany! I seeking a Whipple Procedure in NY / Boston urgent!  I will pay the operation and the hospital stay by myself and i need informations which clinics doing this Whipple operation in NY or Boston - despite my lung Diagnos.

Thanks for your support!
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In the past, tuberculosis was sometimes mistaken for cancer on x ray, but in this day and age we have other methods of confirming the diagnosis.
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Get a 2nd opinion quickly because lung cancers are treatable when found early (usually before symptoms). Do you smoke?  You don't mention why you were having a chest X-ray. A non smoker can get a different type of lung cancer that responds well to treatment.  But you can only diagnose ca through a biopsy.
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