Effect of radiotherapy alone on nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a terrible disease. The harm of nasopharyngeal carcinoma to patients is relatively serious. Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma must be treated as soon as possible to avoid causing more serious harm to the body. My uncle is suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Now I will tell you about the effect of radiotherapy alone for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Effect of radiotherapy alone on nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First of all, for the residual lymph nodes in the neck after radiotherapy, surgical resection is feasible. Considering the physical condition of patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the comprehensive treatment of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine is mainly adopted.

Second: during radiotherapy, many people will lose their sense of taste, or feel that all food has only one kind of astringent taste. In this case, after a few months of radiotherapy, taste will slowly recover.

Finally: the method of radiotherapy can directly kill cancer cells, but we know that this method can kill cancer cells at the same time, it will also cause certain damage to the normal cells of patients. Therefore, radiotherapy is often used for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have good physical function.

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For patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, we should have a positive and optimistic attitude to face and treat this disease. In fact, with the current medical technology, there are many ways to treat this disease. As long as the patients are not discouraged and have confidence in themselves, there is still a great hope to cure nasopharyngeal carcinoma.