Fluid In Lungs Cancer. When cancer affects the lungs fluid can sometimes collect between the sheets of tissue that cover the outside of the lung and the lining of the chest cavity. It often results due to spreading of the cancer cells outside the lungs.
Temporary insertion of a catheter into the pleural space. It occurs in around 7 to 23 of lung cancers but can also occur with other cancers such as breast cancer ovarian cancer leukemia and lymphomas. When cancer affects the lungs fluid can sometimes collect between the sheets of tissue that cover the outside of the lung and the lining of the chest cavity.
Temporary insertion of a catheter into the pleural space.
This is usually followed. Generally treatment involves draining the fluid from the chest cavity either with a needle or a small. A malignant pleural effusion is a complication that involves the build up of fluid containing cancer cells between the membranes that line the lungs. One of the complications of lung cancer is the accumulation of fluid around lungs which is known as pleural effusion.
