Lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a terrible disease. It's difficult to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma. My uncle has suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and it has been two years since he was diagnosed. For the symptoms of lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, I will tell you the symptoms, so that you can better treat this disease.

Lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: the first symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mainly local invasion, such as headache caused by skull base invasion, corresponding symptoms caused by cranial nerve invasion: facial numbness, hearing loss, hoarseness, etc., nasal obstruction caused by posterior nostril invasion, aspiration blood, intermittent epistaxis.

Symptom 2: when the symptoms of lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are small, the places that can be touched are submandibular, pre auricular, post auricular, supraclavicular lymph nodes. And so on, seriously affected the quality of life of patients, to the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma also brought some difficulty.

Symptom 3: local lymph node metastasis is an important predictor of nasopharyngeal carcinoma recurrence. The recurrence rate of patients with local lymph node metastasis is as high as 50%. However, even in patients with pN0 node NPC without local lymph node metastasis, the recurrence rate is as high as 25%.

matters needing attention

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma should have a positive and optimistic attitude to the treatment of this disease, actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma lymph node metastasis, that is, patients without local lymph node metastasis in the early stage, should also actively take adjuvant treatment after surgery to prevent postoperative metastasis.