Nursing care for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy

It depends on the recurrence. According to statistics, if the recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma does not invade the skull base bones, the 5-year survival rate after surgery is 70%. If the invasion of bones does not invade the cavernous sinus and intracranial cavity, the 5-year survival rate after surgery is 30%. If it has invaded the intracranial cavity or cavernous sinus, the surgical effect will be very poor.

Therefore, nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients should be closely followed up and re-examined after radiotherapy. Once recurrence is found, surgery must be performed as soon as possible to save lives and improve the efficacy. If the disease is at its most serious and surgery is no longer the best option, more effective Chinese medicine treatment can be considered, which may also alleviate the disease and create conditions for surgery.

Nursing care for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy:

1. Family members and relatives should have a correct attitude, be mentally prepared, be able to face reality, be brave enough to shoulder heavy responsibilities, have a sense of responsibility and obligation, cheer up, and give the patient a good image, because the mental state of relatives will affect the patient's psychology. Family members and relatives are often the patient's spiritual support.

2. Create a comfortable, quiet, sanitary, safe environment for patients to live and exercise in. The patient's family should understand that tumors are not contagious and patients do not need to be isolated.

3. Create a relaxed, natural and warm atmosphere, and do a good job in the patient's ideological work and psychological care. The understanding, comfort, help, care, encouragement and patient ideological work of relatives will make the patients in pain feel warm and happy. This is conducive to the patient's emotional stability and psychological balance, which is an important part of family psychological care.

4. Family caregivers should also try to master certain nursing knowledge and techniques, and maintain close contact with professional medical staff in the hospital.

5. Arrange the patient's diet. Diet care is an important item in home care and should be planned, purposefully arranged and scientifically allocated.

6. Arrange the patient's daily life. Efforts should be made to cultivate the patient to maintain a certain work and rest schedule and a regular life. Proper rest is necessary, but lying in bed for too long will reduce appetite, make the spirits low, and make the muscles loose and weak, thus reducing the body's resistance and being detrimental to the recovery of the disease. Efforts should be made to quit bad habits and hobbies in life, such as smoking and drinking.

Finally, the ultimate goal of cancer patients' treatment is to recover their health and be able to engage in appropriate work and participate in social activities. This kind of vocational rehabilitation, returning to the working environment, is of great significance to cancer patients, because it is a manifestation of their affirmation of their own value, and they will feel that their lives are more fulfilling and meaningful.