What are the typical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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A colleague in our office was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the beginning of this year. Fortunately, his condition is not so serious. Today, he has been actively treated all year. Let's talk about the typical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

What are the typical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First: nasal bleeding. Blood in nasal mucus is often the signal of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Unilateral nasal obstruction is not obvious in the early stage, and it is gradually aggravated with the growth of the tumor. It is different from common cold in that it has unilateral nasal obstruction, ineffective anti cold treatment and single ear symptoms. Cancer tissue enlargement, invasion of the eustachian tube can cause otitis media, causing ear pain, tinnitus, hearing loss.

Second, if the pharyngeal orifice of eustachian tube is compressed, the change of pressure difference inside and outside the tympanic tube will increase, which will aggravate the tinnitus symptoms. The development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is relatively fast, the main treatment is radiotherapy, but radiotherapy will have some side effects, can cooperate with traditional Chinese medicine to reduce the side effects of radiotherapy, enhance efficiency and reduce toxicity, improve the quality of life of patients; can also induce tumor cell apoptosis, transform to normal cells; inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells.

Third: if the lesion is located in the posterior wall of the top of the nasopharynx, when the secretion of the nasal cavity or part of the nasopharynx is sucked backward with force, the light one may cause blood in the nose (that is, blood in the "sputum" during the nasal suction), and the heavy one may cause epistaxis. This symptom is common in patients with ulcers or cauliflower type on the surface of the tumor, but rarely in submucosal type.

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The above is a simple summary of some typical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. As far as we can see, the incidence rate of this disease is still very high. This has also given us a reminder that we should pay more attention to this problem and do the preventive work in related fields.