Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignant tumor occurring in the top and lateral wall of the nasopharyngeal cavity. It is one of the high incidence malignant tumors in China. What are the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma? Now let's take a look.

Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

Symptom 1: 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.

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: bloody nose and epistaxis: bloody nose is an early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, characterized by blood in the nose, or by sucking blood 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

matters needing attention

1. It's better to eat more food with the function of enhancing immunity and anti nasopharyngeal carcinoma, such as job's tears, sweet almond, water chestnut, oyster, jellyfish, yellow croaker, turtle, crab, horseshoe crab, clam, sea cucumber, Poria cocos, yam, jujube, wushao snake, kidney bean, mushroom, walnut and turtle. 2. It is suitable to eat food to reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy: goose blood, mushroom, shark, longan, Monopterus albus, walnut, turtle, turtle, kiwi fruit, water shield, golden needle, jujube, sunflower seed, apple, carp, mung bean, soybean, red bean, shrimp, crab, Silver bean, loach, pond lice, grass carp, salmon, green tea, snail.