A woman may stop getting her period for a variety of reasons: 1  She's having a health problem. 2  She's pregnant. 3  She's reached menopause â a time in life when older women (45 to 55 years old) stop getting periods and can no longer have babies.
Pancreatitis does not cause pleural effusion. It can cause certain chemical changes in the blood that results in shallow breathing and resulting anoxia. Perhaps it is this that led you to think that this was effusion. Views.
Almost any type of cancer can cause a pleural effusion if it is present in or spreads (metastasizes) to the chest area. The most common are breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and some types of leukemias and lymphomas. A pleural effusion may also be caused by the treatments for lung cancer, such as radiation therapy or chemotherapy.