Ten years after surgery for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after chemotherapy, we must pay attention to the health care, so that we can stay away from the invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, in addition, chemotherapy will cause further damage to our body, nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients can not be taken lightly. Let's listen to experts' opinions on the ten years after nasopharyngeal carcinoma surgery

Ten years after surgery for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First, when radiotherapy kills cancer cells, it will kill normal cells indiscriminately, which will reduce human immunity and cause a series of side effects.

Second: on the one hand, it can reduce the damage caused by the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, on the other hand, it can enhance the therapeutic effect, increase white blood cells, prevent recurrence and metastasis, increase the appetite of patients and improve the quality of life.

Third: indications of radical radiotherapy: ① the general condition is above medium; ② there is no obvious bone destruction in skull base; ③ CT or MRI shows that there is no or only mild to moderate infiltration near nasopharynx; ④ the maximum diameter of cervical lymph node is less than 8cm, and the activity has not reached the supraclavicular fossa; ⑤ there is no distant organ metastasis.

matters needing attention

The patients with single distant metastasis or cervical lymph node metastasis more than 10 cm can be changed to radical radiotherapy if the symptoms are improved and the distant metastasis can be controlled after palliative radiotherapy.