Picture of symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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The reason why many patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma are seriously ill after the diagnosis of the disease and suffer from some pain caused by the disease is that they don't know much about the early symptoms of the disease, which brings a lot of inconvenience to themselves and their families. Here is a brief introduction to some early symptoms of the disease.

Picture of symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: bloody nose and epistaxis. Bloody nose is an early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. It is characterized by blood in the nose or by sucking the bloody nose back from the mouth. Epistaxis often occurs after getting up in the morning. When the amount of blood in the nose is not much, it is often neglected by the patients and mistaken for rhinitis or sinusitis.

Symptom 2: headache. About 70% of NPC patients have headache symptoms at the time of initial diagnosis. The headache symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma often presents as unilateral persistent pain, mostly in the temporal and parietal region. The headache of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mostly related to the invasion of skull base bone, nerves and blood vessels by cancer tissue.

Symptom 3: nasal congestion. Nasal obstruction is a common early manifestation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Most of them are unilateral nasal obstruction. When the nasopharyngeal tumor is enlarged, bilateral nasal obstruction may appear.

matters needing attention

Many patients with throat cancer after the diet will become the biggest problem, because eating will be sore throat and then difficult to swallow. In addition, the treatment is generally surgical treatment, can quickly and effectively relieve the pain of patients, and diet needs to be light, try to eat more liquid food.