How to treat pleural effusion caused by cancer

For pleural effusion caused by cancer, the main treatment method is to fully drain pleural effusion, local infusion of chemotherapy drugs or anti-tumor angiogenesis drugs, which can reduce the generation of pleural effusion, thus reducing the compression and dyspnea caused by pleural effusion. More importantly, the treatment for the primary disease, if pleural effusion caused by lung cancer, chemotherapy or targeted therapy is the main treatment; For pleural effusion caused by liver cancer, targeted therapy and antiangiogenic therapy can be used; for pleural effusion caused by breast cancer, chemotherapy or endocrine-based therapy is mainly used. Pleural effusion caused by cancer is more common in malignant tumors. once cancer shows pleural effusion, it belongs to advanced metastasis.