What are the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer

What are the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer? The clinical symptoms of early laryngeal cancer are more obvious. People can often detect laryngeal cancer in the early stage. Effective treatment can inhibit the development of cancer and greatly improve the survival rate and cure rate. Early laryngeal cancer has the following typical clinical symptoms:

1. Persistent hoarseness. Unexplained hoarseness is the most typical symptom of early laryngeal cancer. It usually lasts for more than two weeks and is not effective with symptomatic treatment. Pay attention to a detailed throat examination and do not take it lightly, thinking it is a common cold and miss early detection.

2. Abnormal sensation in the throat. Foreign body sensation, urgency, and swallowing discomfort are early symptoms of supraglottic laryngeal cancer, but the symptoms are relatively mild.

3. Blood in sputum. The irritating dry cough caused by tumor stimulation often contains blood in sputum and causes difficulty breathing.

Experts remind that anyone over 40 years old who has the above symptoms should highly suspect the possibility of laryngeal cancer and should go to the hospital for further diagnosis and examination as soon as possible. Such as indirect laryngoscopy, X-ray examination, microlaryngoscopy, DNA quantitative determination, etc. For patients diagnosed with early laryngeal cancer, it is crucial to consider what treatment plan to use. Traditionally, total laryngectomy is the main method for clinical treatment of early laryngeal cancer. Its advantage is that it can completely remove the cancerous tissue and reduce the chance of local recurrence. However, this means that the patient will lose the larynx for life, lose the normal language function, and cannot guarantee the normal physiological respiratory pathway. This is a pity for patients with early laryngeal cancer, especially those with more localized cancer. With the development of medical technology today, people have a new understanding of cancer. While paying attention to the complete removal of the tumor, the function of the throat should be preserved as much as possible. It has been clinically confirmed that the 5-year survival rate after hemi-laryngectomy or partial laryngectomy is not inferior to that of total laryngectomy. Therefore, hemi-laryngectomy or partial laryngectomy should be considered according to the specific situation of the patient. In addition, for some patients with early laryngeal cancer, especially those without cervical lymph node metastasis, doctors prefer to preserve the throat and treat them with simple radiotherapy.

Because laryngeal cancer is mostly squamous cell carcinoma, it is more sensitive to radiation, and radiotherapy alone is also effective. Early laryngeal cancer patients can only eat liquid or semi-liquid soft food for a period of time after surgery and radiotherapy, such as milk, rice soup, soy milk, etc. with sugar, egg soup or egg custard, etc., fresh fruit juice and vegetable juice without residue are all OK. For those who have dry mouth after radiotherapy, they can eat more watermelon, raw pear, mung bean soup, etc.; they can be soaked with American ginseng or ginseng root, or chewed American ginseng slices. When transitioning to normal food, patients should strengthen nutritional supplements, with the principle of fresh, easy to digest, and rich in nutrition. Do not eat spicy and other irritating foods and "hair-raising foods" such as sheep, dog, and beef, and prohibit smoking and drinking. Usually eat more high-protein foods such as turtles.

Among all cancers, laryngeal cancer has a relatively high cure rate, and the prognosis of early-stage laryngeal cancer is even better, so it can be considered curable. Finally, I wish you a speedy recovery.