For patients with pleural effusion in the advanced stage of lung cancer, chemotherapy may no longer be suitable as a method, because the pleural effusion in the advanced stage of lung cancer is a more serious condition, and the patient's physical condition has become very weak, easy to be infected with viruses and bacteria, and the condition is easy to deteriorate. At this stage, chemotherapy has become a common method, but chemotherapy also has certain harm to the patient's body.
First of all, chemotherapy drugs have a certain degree of *** that will cause patients to have vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, mouth ulcers, liver and kidney damage and other reactions. Second, chemotherapy drugs can suppress the patient's immune system, making the patient's body more susceptible to infections and viruses. Finally, chemotherapy drugs can suppress the patient's bone marrow, resulting in a decrease in leukocytes and platelets, affecting the patient's hematopoietic function. This will make the patient prone to symptoms such as anemia and bleeding during the ** process, further aggravating the patient's condition.
Therefore, at this time, it is not suitable for chemotherapy, you can use traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is more focused on the overall condition of the patient, compared with chemotherapy is also more mild, not so big for the accumulation of water caused by cancer, Chinese medicine may be more suitable for the patient's condition at this time. The patient who had been treated before had a pleural effusion in the advanced stage of lung cancer, and decided to take traditional Chinese medicine ** after repeated pumping to no avail, and the condition was improved in less than half a month after the diagnosis and treatment was prescribed, and the ascites only decreased but did not increase after the medication.
In short, chemotherapy is not recommended for pleural effusion in advanced lung cancer, and the method of pleural effusion in advanced lung cancer in traditional Chinese medicine has the advantages of good efficacy and small quality, and can be used as an option for advanced lung cancer.