Metastatic symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a kind of terrible disease. The harm caused by NPC to patients is also serious. Not long ago, my uncle was diagnosed with NPC. Patients with NPC must be treated as soon as possible. Now I will tell you about the metastasis symptoms of NPC.

Metastatic symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: lymphatic metastasis is the most common form of metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. It refers to the phenomenon that the invading tumor cells pass through the lymphatic vessel wall, fall off and are carried to the lymph node of confluence area with lymph fluid, and grow the same tumor on this center.

Symptom 2: liver metastasis refers to the non intrahepatic primary tumor can be hematogenous or lymphatic metastasis to the liver. The most common liver metastases are from digestive tract, lung, pancreas, kidney and breast.

The third symptom is that the lung is the necessary place for the blood flow of the whole body, and its rich capillary bed is a high-efficiency filter, which becomes the predilection site of various malignant tumor metastasis. 20-54% of the patients died of malignant tumor had lung metastasis, and 15% of the patients had lung metastasis.

matters needing attention

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma must go to the regular tumor hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible, and also have a positive and optimistic attitude towards life. The treatment methods of nasopharyngeal carcinoma mainly include radiotherapy, chemotherapy and cellular immunotherapy, but the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are relatively large, and patients are often difficult to bear, and easy to produce drug resistance.