Symptoms of systemic metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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The cancer cells of patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma flow to the whole body through blood circulation, which has a certain impact on patients. We understand the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can help patients better cure the disease and effectively improve the life cycle of patients. So, what are the symptoms of NPC systemic metastasis? Now let's learn about it.

Symptoms of systemic metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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.

Cervical lymphadenopathy: tumor metastasis to the cervical lymph nodes, the incidence of 79.37%, 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.

matters needing attention

To prevent nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the main thing is to reduce the burden on the nasopharynx, which requires maintaining a good mood, learning to regulate their emotions, doing more deep breathing, and never causing throat inflammation due to frequent anger. In addition, it is suggested to eat some mild foods such as Osmunda japonica, sesame, almond, pumpkin seed, etc.