Late-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma that need everyone's attention

In real life, if nasopharyngeal cancer patients keep delaying treatment, they will gradually develop advanced symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer. The appearance of these advanced symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer means that the patient may face the threat of death at any time. At this time, the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer is very difficult. What are the common advanced symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer? The following is a brief introduction to the common advanced symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer.

In general, the common late-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are:

Distant metastasis: NPC can metastasize to various parts of the body, but is most common in bones, lungs, and liver. Late-stage NPC symptoms may metastasize to multiple organs at the same time. Different symptoms may occur depending on the location of the metastasis.

Cachexia: A terminal symptom that can lead to death. Late-stage symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can also lead to death due to sudden massive bleeding.

Swollen cervical lymph nodes: caused by tumor metastasis to cervical lymph nodes, with an incidence rate of up to 79.37%. This late-stage symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can metastasize to one or both sides. The swollen lymph nodes in the neck are painless, hard, and movable in the early stage. In the late stage, they adhere to the skin or deep tissues and become fixed.

Eye symptoms: If the tumor invades the orbit or eye-related nerves, the late-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma may include visual impairment or even blindness, visual field defects, diplopia, protrusion of the eyeball and limited movement, neuroparalytic keratitis, etc. Optic nerve atrophy and edema can be seen during fundus examination.

Symptoms of cranial nerve damage: This is also a late-stage symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. As nasopharyngeal carcinoma infiltrates the surrounding areas, any cranial nerve that is compressed will cause corresponding symptoms and signs. However, the trigeminal nerve, abducens nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, and hypoglossal nerve are more often affected, while the facial nerve, olfactory nerve, and auditory nerve are less affected.

The above is an explanation of the common late-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. I believe everyone should be aware of this. If the symptoms are already late-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, then you must face the treatment more actively in order to effectively alleviate the disease and prolong the patient's survival.