Throat tumor symptoms?

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Drinking makes the risk of throat cancer significantly increased than non drinkers, and if a large number of smoking and drinking alcohol, especially long-term use, will make the risk of cancer doubled. In fact, throat cancer is not only related to drinking and smoking. Many head and neck cancers regard it as a risk factor, such as oral cancer, laryngeal cancer and hypopharyngeal cancer. Is the cloud: adverse consequences, oropharyngeal tumors from this. Throat tumor symptoms? Let's talk about it

Throat tumor symptoms?

The common benign tumors of pharynx are papilloma, hemangioma, nasopharyngeal fibroma, pleomorphic adenoma, etc. In addition, neurilemmoma, neurofibroma, lymphangioma, lipoma, chondroma and so on are rare.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor in the pharynx, while tonsillar carcinoma, malignant lymphoma and rhabdomyosarcoma are rare. Leiomyosarcoma and malignant melanoma are rare.

The only symptom of a laryngeal tumor is usually hoarseness. It doesn't have the flu like symptoms of laryngitis. If the tumor is malignant, it will spread, which is cancer. Finally, it will cause dysphagia, and you will have an increasingly obvious lump in your neck. Children's throat airway is very narrow, if suffering from laryngeal tumor, will make the voice become like a crow like high tone, this kind of high tone voice is called wheezing, is due to airway obstruction.

matters needing attention

Radiotherapy is mainly suitable for stage I lesions: ① small and superficial unilateral or bilateral vocal cord cancer, not involving anterior commissure, vocal cord process or subglottic area, vocal cord movement is good. ② Marginal carcinoma of epiglottis, less than 1 cm. ③ The general condition is poor, not suitable for operation. ④ Preoperative radiotherapy can be used to treat a wide range of cancer involving laryngopharynx. The preoperative dose of 60Co was 45-50gy (4500-5000rad) within 4 weeks, and surgical resection was performed within 2-4 weeks after radiotherapy. The dose of radiation alone is 60-70gy (6000-7000rad).