Is pleural fluid blood sample lung cancer

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The most common disease of lung cancer is pleural effusion, which is bloody, but it does not mean that there is no exception. Now let's talk about whether pleural fluid blood sample is lung cancer.

Is pleural fluid blood sample lung cancer

First: infectious pleural effusion: serous, suppurative, such as tuberculous pleurisy or tuberculous empyema. Nonspecific infectious pleurisy. Fungal pleurisy. Parasitic infections such as paragonimiasis, amoebiasis, filariasis, etc. Malignant pleural effusion: mostly bloody, in which lung cancer is the most common, another type is pleural tumor, such as malignant mesothelioma.

Second: bloody pleural effusion is not necessarily lung cancer. Bloody pleural effusion indicates trauma, malignant tumor or pulmonary embolism. Lung cancer pleural effusion is referred to as pulmonary pleural effusion. Pulmonary pleural effusion is a common complication in patients with advanced lung cancer, which has little impact on the quality of life at first. With the progress of the disease, it will cause dyspnea, cough, chest pain and other symptoms, and the harm to patients even exceeds the lung cancer itself.

Third: therefore, for the treatment of lung cancer pleural effusion, first consider the safety of traditional Chinese medicine treatment. In addition, in the treatment of lung cancer pleural effusion, we should pay attention to the timely treatment of primary cancer and lung cancer. The same treatment can achieve satisfactory results, so we can not ignore the treatment of either side.

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In conclusion, pleural effusion blood sample is not necessarily lung cancer. Further diagnosis is needed to confirm the disease. Patients must do a good job in the examination, so as not to delay the misdiagnosis of the disease, leading to a big mistake.