What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a terrible disease. For patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, early detection and early treatment should be done. My friend's father found out that he suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma some time ago. In his daily life, there are often symptoms of epistaxis. Now I will tell you about this problem, so as to facilitate better treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma Cancer is a disease.

What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: when nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in the lateral wall of nasopharynx, lateral fossa or upper lip of eustachian tube opening, the tumor compresses eustachian tube, which can produce unilateral ear cry, hearing loss, and catarrhal otitis media. Unilateral ear cry or hearing loss, sense of occlusion in ear.

Symptoms 2: pain and tactile decline, dissipation, tumor invasion into the cavernous sinus, often cause damage to the first or second branch of the trigeminal nerve; tumor invasion into the foramen ovale, styloid process area, the third branch of the trigeminal nerve, often cause skin paralysis in the anterior auricle, temporal, cheek, lower lip and chin, feel abnormal.

Symptom 3: nasopharyngeal carcinoma can lead to headache symptoms, headache is often unilateral migraine, located in the frontal, temporal or occipital. Light headache without treatment, heavy need to take painkillers, or even injection pain needle. There are many causes of headache, but one of them is cranial nerve invasion or skull base bone damage.

matters needing attention

For patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, we should have a positive and optimistic attitude to the treatment of this disease, at the same time, we should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment. In daily life, we should also timely correct some bad living habits, develop good habits of daily life, use more food that is good for the body in diet, and do some sports properly It's not easy.