It depends on the cancer staging. If it’s late stage lung cancer. At first, you need to confirm stage of cancer and check your pathological report. If pathological diagnosis is adenocarcinoma with targeted spot. Then you can choose targeted therapy. For patients with pleural fluid, radiotherapy is not suitable for them, since for a patient with pleural fluid and pleural metastasis, the amount of his pleural fluid will increase after radiotherapy. For a patient who has lung infections or has pulmonary disease or has poor intolerance to radiotherapy.
Choosing particle implantion could be better than radiotherapy. For the reason that particle implantation will release radiation within tumor area. The effective distance of radiation is 1.7cm. It will harm little to surrounding tissues. But choose what kind of treatment methods after all. We need to decide accroding to your stage and details of your illness. And we will conduct a discussion by MDT, so as to decide your detailed treatment plan.