How to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Recently, the second brother always has a lot of runny nose and blood. He went to the hospital and was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Fortunately, it was early. The doctor's suggestion is to treat it immediately. Now let me talk about how to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

How to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First, early treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The first choice for the treatment of early nasopharyngeal carcinoma is surgical resection. Generally, the cancer cells are removed by surgical treatment. The specific need is to determine the scope of surgical resection through the patient's condition. The tumor tissue can be quickly removed, and the effect is fast. However, the trauma of the operation is still very large. Some traditional Chinese medicine can be used to reduce the occurrence of postoperative complications. In the early stage, single radiotherapy was also used to treat nasopharyngeal tumors and prophylactic external radiotherapy was used to treat cervical lymph nodes. Most of early nasopharyngeal carcinoma do not need adjuvant chemotherapy.

The second is the mid-term treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In the treatment of mid-term nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with small tumor and no lymph node metastasis, single radiotherapy is usually used to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma and neck. We can consider the comprehensive treatment method of radiotherapy combined with drug therapy. Chemotherapy can be carried out before radiotherapy, at the same time or after radiotherapy according to the specific situation of patients. At present, radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy is widely used.

Third, the prognosis of patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma is poor. Systemic chemotherapy combined with palliative radiotherapy can be used for these patients. Patients with distant metastasis should also consider the new treatment provided by clinical trials.

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As for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the most scientific way is to treat it by stages. Generally speaking, surgery is often used in the early stage, and then combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy to consolidate the condition after surgery. Relatively speaking, conservative treatment is more commonly used in the middle and late stage.