What are the symptoms of laryngeal cancer

Laryngeal cancer seriously affects the patient's physical health. In order to effectively reduce the incidence of laryngeal cancer, it is very important to understand the symptoms of laryngeal cancer in advance. What are the symptoms of laryngeal cancer?

1. Inner ear pain. When the tumor develops to a certain extent, ulcers and severe inflammation will occur in the throat, which can cause reflex pain of the nerves. Early tumors generally do not produce reflex pain. Reflex pain mainly occurs in patients with supraglottic tumors in the middle and late stages. The most common manifestation is pain in the inner ear on the same side.

2. Blood in sputum. Because there are a large number of abnormal new blood vessels in the tumor, patients often have blood in their mucus or sputum after coughing. This symptom is mainly seen in patients with supraglottic and subglottic tumors and patients with mid-to-late stage vocal cord tumors.

3. Difficulty in breathing As the tumor deteriorates severely and grows in size at the primary site, it will directly block the trachea and affect breathing or make it difficult for tracheal secretions to be discharged, thus causing difficulty in breathing

4. Pain in swallowing. Once the throat tumor develops to the middle stage, it will cause pain in swallowing. The initial symptoms are often not obvious and are not discovered until the middle or late stage. Looking back on the medical history, it can take several months. Therefore, patients and doctors are more likely to ignore it.

5. Foreign bodies in the neck. Supraglottic laryngeal cancer may metastasize to the cervical lymph nodes and may cause foreign bodies in the neck.