Pre death symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

summary

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma refers to the malignant tumor that occurs in the nasopharyngeal mucosa. Because my grandfather usually likes smoking and drinking too much, he later suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma and finally left us without cure. Therefore, he usually suggested not to smoke so much and have more physical examination. Now let me share the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma before death?

Pre death symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: nasal, ear, eye, oral symptoms: the invasion and expansion of primary cancer, surface ulcer infection, the vast majority of patients (> 98%) will have symptoms of the above parts, only according to the location of the tumor and the time and sequence of clinical symptoms.

Symptom 2: the tumor is located in the pharyngeal recess. In the early stage, it often has tinnitus, ear closure, hearing loss and other symptoms. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as catarrhal exudative otitis media or suppurative otitis media; the tumor infiltrates into the eye, showing unilateral exophthalmos, diplopia, eye movement disorders, etc.

Symptom 3: neck sign: it mainly refers to the mass caused by cervical lymph node metastasis. Clinically, the painless mass in the neck is the first symptom or even the only symptom. The mass first occurs on one side and increases rapidly, then affects the opposite side of the neck.

matters needing attention

1. There are smoking and drinking to give up, because alcohol and tobacco contain a lot of carcinogens, will aggravate the development of the disease. 2. Avoid spicy food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. 3. Can be appropriate physical exercise, improve their physique. 4. To maintain a good attitude, do not have too much pressure, or pessimistic negative emotions, to believe that everything will be OK. 5. We should choose the right medicine for our own treatment, and we should not use foreign drugs indiscriminately.