What is the treatment method for recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Experts say that all cancers are difficult to cure, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma is no exception. The occurrence of the disease brings great pain to patients. Many patients have achieved clinical cure after treatment, but later relapsed. So what is the treatment method for recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma? This is the issue that many patients are most concerned about. Let the experts introduce it to you in detail.

Generally speaking, the prognosis of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the recurrent stage is very poor, so patients should adopt clinically reliable therapies for treatment, including traditional Chinese medicine treatment, surgical treatment, external radiotherapy combined with intracavitary radiotherapy, conformal intensity-modulated external radiotherapy or gamma knife radiotherapy. Because patients have received radiotherapy before, the combined dose and treatment range of radiotherapy in the recurrent stage will be greatly limited. Radiation oncologists need to use special radiation techniques to perform secondary radiotherapy on areas that have been previously treated with radiotherapy. Patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma should also consider participating in clinical trials for treatment.

During the recurrence stage of nasopharyngeal cancer, the patient's overall physical fitness needs to be improved. Patients should pay attention to maintaining a calm state of mind and actively adjust their diet. Cancer is no longer an incurable disease, so patients should not be pessimistic and disappointed. Of course, there is no method that can guarantee that cancer will never recur, so it is crucial to survive with cancer, improve the quality of life, and overcome nasopharyngeal cancer mentally.

The above introduces how to treat the recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Experts say that the recurrence rate of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is very high, so patients should pay attention to it. Even if it is clinically cured, they should not be careless and should do a good job in rehabilitation treatment. In addition, nursing work in life is also indispensable to reduce the chance of recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.