What are the early symptoms of throat cancer

summary

Patients with laryngeal cancer usually have the phenomenon of swallowing discomfort and sense of urgency, but the symptoms are often not so obvious, so it is easy to be ignored by patients and delay the best period of treatment. Let's learn about the early symptoms of hypopharyngeal cancer.

What are the early symptoms of throat cancer

Symptom 1: hoarseness is the most obvious symptom of pharyngeal cancer. Most cases of pharyngeal cancer originate from the vocal cord, that is, very small vocal cord tumors can also cause abnormal vocal cord vibration and hoarseness.

Symptom 2: when pharyngeal cancer is more serious, it is easy to appear ulcer phenomenon, which can cause nerve reflex pain. Early vocal cord tumors generally do not produce reflex pain, which mainly occurs in patients with advanced supraglottic tumors. The most common symptom is ipsilateral inner ear pain.

Symptom 3: there will also be foreign body sensation in the throat, but once the tumor originating from the vocal cord develops to the middle and late stage, it will also produce foreign body sensation in the throat or swallowing pain. This type of symptom is often not obvious at the beginning of the disease, so it is easy for patients and doctors to ignore it.

matters needing attention

Throat cancer patients generally in the early time will also appear dyspnea phenomenon, in the diet to pay more attention to some, do not eat spicy greasy food.