There are several causes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal cancer is a very scary cancer disease. Many people will experience symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer, which will harm their health. The cause of this disease is quite complicated. We should be clear about the causes of the disease. Now, let me introduce to you the causes of nasopharyngeal cancer.

Causes of nasopharyngeal cancer:

1) Insufficiently detailed inquiry into the patient's medical history: In clinical work, many young doctors do not pay attention to collecting the patient's medical history, resulting in many valuable medical histories being ignored or omitted. For patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, if the doctor does not pay attention to their relevant symptoms, such as the degree of nasal congestion, the nature of nasal secretions, the characteristics of headaches, neck masses, and eye manifestations, it is very easy to misdiagnose the disease.

2) Atypical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Due to the hidden primary site of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are not fixed, and the manifestations of patients vary greatly. The lesions often invade the nasal cavity, sinuses, ears and skull base. Many patients often show symptoms similar to those of diseases such as exudative otitis media, epistaxis, cervical lymph node tuberculosis, sinusitis, neuralgia, cervical lymphadenitis, orbital pseudoalgesia, trigeminal neuralgia, pulmonary tuberculosis, oculomotor nerve palsy, temporomandibular arthritis, parotid gland enlargement, glaucoma, etc., causing these nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients to visit neurology, cranial internal medicine, ophthalmology, etc., resulting in misdiagnosis of the disease.

3) Failure to conduct a careful examination of the patient's nasopharynx: If the doctor does not conduct a careful and detailed nasopharyngeal examination for patients suspected of nasopharyngeal cancer, including ordinary nasopharyngeal endoscopy (a small reflective mirror), electric nasopharyngeal endoscopy, fiber nasopharyngeal endoscopy and CT scan, it is very easy to misdiagnose the disease.

4) Lack of comprehensive analysis and judgment of the disease: Since nasopharyngeal carcinoma can affect multiple organs throughout the body, doctors should conduct a comprehensive analysis and judgment of the patient's symptoms such as nasal congestion, bloody nose, swollen cervical lymph nodes, headache, tinnitus, hearing loss, and bulging of one eye (or diplopia). Each symptom should not be viewed in isolation, otherwise it will lead to misdiagnosis of the disease.