What are the late symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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My grandfather is suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and has been sick for a long time. Because he has not been found and treated in time, now he is in the advanced stage of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The doctor said that his current situation is not very good. Now let's talk about the symptoms of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

What are the late symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First, cervical lymphadenopathy: it is caused by tumor metastasis to the cervical lymph nodes, with an incidence of 79.37%, and can occur unilateral or bilateral metastasis. The enlarged lymph nodes in the neck are painless, hard, movable in the early stage, and fixed by adhesion with skin or deep tissue in the late stage. Distant metastasis: nasopharyngeal carcinoma can metastasize to all parts of the body, but bone, lung and liver are common. Multiple organs can metastasize at the same time. There are corresponding manifestations due to different sites of metastasis.

Second: eye symptoms: if the tumor invades the orbit or eyeball related nerves, there may be visual impairment or even blindness, visual field defect, diplopia, exophthalmos and limited movement, nerve palsy keratitis, etc. Optic atrophy and edema can be seen in fundus examination. Most of these manifestations are in advanced stage, but some patients still seek medical treatment.

Third: cachexia: the end-stage performance, and because of it, also because of sudden massive hemorrhage and death. Cranial nerve damage symptoms: due to nasopharyngeal carcinoma infiltrating into the surrounding, any one of the cranial nerves compressed will appear corresponding symptoms and signs. However, trigeminal nerve, abducens nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and hypoglossal nerve were more involved, while facial nerve, olfactory nerve and auditory nerve were less involved.

matters needing attention

When nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients reach the advanced stage, the tumor will metastasize, which may cause cervical lymph node enlargement, nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastases to the lung, liver and other organs, and vision problems, even blindness, may also lead to brain nerve problems and so on. If there are these situations, the patients' families must pay attention to them and send them to the hospital for treatment in time.