How harmful is it to have nasopharyngeal cancer

Nasopharyngeal cancer is one of the more common cancers nowadays, and the onset of this disease is very harmful to patients. Therefore, nasopharyngeal cancer should be treated as early as possible to avoid missing the best treatment opportunity and preventing the disease from causing other harms. So, how harmful is nasopharyngeal cancer? Let's take a look at the experts' introduction to the relevant content:

(1) The onset of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can cause serious harm to the patient's ear health. Usually, nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients experience tinnitus, hearing loss, and a feeling of blockage in the ear. When nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in the lateral wall of the nasopharynx, the lateral fossa, or the upper lip of the Eustachian tube opening, the tumor compresses the Eustachian tube, which can cause unilateral tinnitus or hearing loss, and catarrhal otitis media. Unilateral tinnitus or hearing loss, and a feeling of blockage in the ear are all symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

(2) During the course of the disease, nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients will experience headaches, and this symptom will basically last throughout the entire course of the patient's illness. Headache is a relatively common symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, accounting for 68.6%. In the early stage, the location of the headache is not fixed and it is intermittent. In the later stage, the headache is continuous and difficult to relieve, causing the patient to suffer.

(3) Respiratory mucus is a typical health hazard that patients have to endure. This hazard is also a typical manifestation of the early stage of the disease. If it can be treated in time, the patient's recovery is very likely. The hazards of nasopharyngeal cancer also include blood in the sputum after suctioning the nose or blood in the mucus when blowing the nose. In the early stage, there is only a small amount of blood in the sputum or mucus, which sometimes appears and sometimes disappears. In the late stage, there is more bleeding and there may be nosebleeds.

The above content introduces the harm caused by nasopharyngeal cancer. I hope that the above introduction can help you. I want to tell you again that the arrival of cancer is not terrible. As long as we have a good attitude to face the disease and defeat the disease, the disease can be cured.