Prevention and treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal cancer has become a disease that many friends will talk about when they get together. It can be seen that nasopharyngeal cancer has become a disease that the public is concerned about. For nasopharyngeal cancer, the key lies in treatment. So, what are the prevention and treatment methods of nasopharyngeal cancer? Let's answer it together below.

Prevention of nasopharyngeal cancer

In recent years, with the increasing incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, people are very afraid of contracting this disease because it can seriously damage human health. If nasopharyngeal cancer prevention work is not done in time, this disease may endanger the health of more people. Therefore, everyone should learn more about the prevention methods of nasopharyngeal cancer in order to prevent this disease well.

1. For patients with double vision, cover the affected eye with gauze to alleviate the symptoms. This type of nasopharyngeal cancer prevention is relatively common.

2. To prevent nasopharyngeal cancer, it is also necessary to strengthen nutrition and try to give a high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, easily digestible, low-residue diet to increase tolerance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

3. For those with bad breath and runny nose, oral cavity, nose and nasopharynx care should be strengthened. Use 250 ml of metronidazole and an equal amount of normal saline solution to clean. Use fish odor liquid or cod liver oil to drip into the nose, and use normal saline to rinse the nasal cavity. This is also a preventive measure for nasopharyngeal cancer.

Treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer

1. Combination of Chinese and Western cultures

The treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma often adopts a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. When treating this disease, we should not only consider removing the patient's local cancer, but also focus on systemic treatment to improve the patient's quality of life and prolong the patient's survival.

2. Radiotherapy

Because radiotherapy can directly kill cancer cells, local radiation is often used for patients in the advanced stage, but the prerequisite is that the patient is in good physical condition. The size of the radiotherapy dose, the size of the irradiation range, and the course of irradiation for patients in the advanced stage should also be carefully selected according to the body's functions and the size of the lesion. Generally, combined chemotherapy is one of the common methods for treating patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Combined with radiotherapy, it is more effective than chemotherapy alone.

3. Chemotherapy

Radiotherapy can be used for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but radiotherapy lacks selectivity for normal cells. While killing cancer cells, it will also damage normal cells and human functions. Therefore, the treatment of the disease in the late stage is often combined with traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the purpose of increasing efficacy and reducing toxicity. Patients with a wide range of metastases and weak bodies are not suitable for radiotherapy and chemotherapy, so conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine can be selected.

The treatment of recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma is often based on salvage treatment, and radiotherapy can also be considered again. There are two types of salvage surgical treatments for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: modified infratemporal fossa approach surgery and maxillary external rotation approach surgery. Some patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be cured after surgical treatment. According to statistics, if the recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma does not invade the skull base bone, the 5-year survival rate after surgery is 70%. If the invaded bone 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 is very poor.

To sum up, nasopharyngeal cancer is very harmful. Regardless of whether you have taken any treatment measures for nasopharyngeal cancer, we hope you will go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. At the same time, we recommend that patients with nasopharyngeal cancer take preventive measures. Only by paying attention to little common sense in life can you benefit from it and avoid the recurrence of nasopharyngeal cancer.