Should I reduce my diet if I have early laryngeal cancer?

Laryngeal cancer generally does not affect appetite in its early stages. Persistent hoarseness is one of the early manifestations of laryngeal cancer. Because laryngeal cancer affects the vocal cords, hoarseness will occur even if the size is small, so hoarseness is the earliest sign of laryngeal cancer. Because the patient does not feel any pain or itching at this time, they often mistakenly think it is caused by a "cold" or "pharyngitis." However, hoarseness caused by colds and inflammation will quickly improve as the inflammation subsides, while the hoarseness symptoms caused by laryngeal cancer will progressively worsen, and gradually develop into a coarser and more mute voice, until complete loss of voice.

Another early symptom of laryngeal cancer is abnormal sensation in the throat. Foreign body sensation, urgency or discomfort when swallowing are early symptoms of supraglottic laryngeal cancer. This symptom is similar to that of chronic pharyngitis and can be easily misdiagnosed as chronic pharyngitis, so this type of cancer is often not discovered until the middle or late stages.

The early symptoms of laryngeal cancer include hoarseness. Hoarseness is the earliest and most common sign of laryngeal cancer. Most laryngeal cancer cases start from the vocal cords, that is, very small vocal cord tumors can cause abnormal vibration of the vocal cords and cause hoarseness. If patients find unexplained hoarseness, the symptoms last for more than three weeks and there is no sign of gradual improvement, they should go to the hospital for timely medical treatment and have an ENT specialist perform a careful laryngeal endoscopic examination. Patients and health care doctors must not take it lightly because the symptoms are not obvious and delay diagnosis and treatment.