Investigation of Efficacy and Safety of Bevacizumab Combined with Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Effusion from Lung Cancer.

OBJECTIVE

To analyze the efficacy and safety of bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy in the treatment of malignant pleural effusion of lung cancer.

METHODS

Lung cancer patients with malignant pleural effusion (n = 60 cases) treated in our hospital from January 2020 to December 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. They were divided into a control group (patients receiving conventional chemotherapy) and an observation group (patients receiving bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy). The two groups were age and sex-matched. The therapeutic effects, adverse reactions, quality of life (physiological status, social and family status, emotional status, and functional status), levels of serum tumor markers (cytokeratin 19 fragment, tumor-specific growth factor, and carcinoembryonic antigen), pain degree of the two groups before and after treatment, and the psychological states before and after treatment (anxiety and depression scores) of the two groups were compared.

RESULTS

The results obtained shows that the observation group has improved treatment outcome than the control group, P < .05. Similarly, the observation group reported higher physiological status, social and family status, emotional status, functional status and other quality of life compared to the control group, P < .05. Interestingly, the observation group showed lower levels of serum tumor markers than the control group, P < .05. Upon comparison of the pain degree of the two groups after treatment, the observation group reported a lesser degree of pain than the control group, P < .05. Although no significant difference was observed in the depression and anxiety scores of the two groups prior to the treatment, the observation group displayed improved psychological state compared to the control group, P < .05.

CONCLUSION

Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy has outstanding curative effect on malignant pleural effusion of lung cancer.