What are the symptoms of advanced oral cancer?

summary

Oral cancer refers to some malignant tumors in the oral cavity, mainly including tongue cancer, gingival cancer, floor of mouth cancer, oropharyngeal cancer and so on. Oral or head and neck tumors are more common. In the early stage, the symptoms are not particularly obvious, only when accompanied by mass ulcer will have obvious pain. However, with the further deterioration of oral cancer, there will be a series of clinical symptoms, the more common symptom is cervical lymph node metastasis, lymph node enlargement. Some oral cancer patients even have lymphadenopathy at an early stage.

What are the symptoms of advanced oral cancer?

When oral cancer is advanced, it will spread and metastasize to different parts, and its clinical symptoms are also different. In the late stage, because the longer the tumor cells are, the larger they are, they may compress the recurrent nerve. At this time, the patient will have hoarseness.

If pressed to the trachea, the patient will also have difficulty breathing. Some patients with advanced oral cancer have no way to lie flat and fall asleep in the later stage, because as soon as they lie down, they will have difficulty breathing. In addition, some patients will have difficulty swallowing food, even drinking water.

Another point is that patients with advanced cancer will have severe pain, which is called cancer pain. They need to take painkillers to relieve the pain. In a word, patients with oral cancer are very painful when they reach the advanced stage. Many patients die of starvation because they can't eat.

matters needing attention

Prevention of oral cancer is very important, usually more understanding of some oral cancer prevention knowledge, and pay attention to some healthy diet and lifestyle, at the same time pay attention to maintain oral health, which can effectively prevent oral cancer.