How to deal with complications after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a common malignant tumor in southern China. Its treatment is mainly based on radiotherapy, but most nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients have obvious complications during radiotherapy, and many people cannot tolerate it and are unable to complete radiotherapy. Therefore, how to deal with radiotherapy complications is also something that nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients need to know.

Mr. Yuan from Guangdong was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer this year and received radiotherapy in the hospital. However, after only a few radiotherapy sessions, he developed radiotherapy complications such as weakness, fatigue, dizziness, headache, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, and difficulty eating dry food. These symptoms may not seem serious, but Mr. Yuan, who was getting thinner day by day, could be said to be suffering from the radiotherapy.

The doctor said that not everyone's reaction to radiotherapy is so obvious, it depends on the difference in each person's physical constitution. Seeing that Mr. Yuan's reaction to radiotherapy was so obvious, the doctor suggested that he receive traditional Chinese medicine treatment at the same time.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that after radiotherapy, the body's yin fluid is damaged, qi and yin are both deficient, and the deficiency of the body's health is the root, while the evil is the symptom. The treatment is to nourish qi and yin, and strengthen the body's health. Seven doses of Adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Ginseng, Licorice, Dendrobium, Vitex, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, White Peony Root, and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae were prescribed. After that, Mr. Yuan took the decoction for two or three consecutive visits for one month, and then continued to use Chinese medicine to strengthen the body's health and eliminate evil. Now Mr. Yuan not only passed the radiotherapy period safely, but also his mental state is no different from that of a normal person, and he even looks more energetic than before. These can only be said to be the credit of comprehensive treatment. This comprehensive treatment method, which mainly uses radiotherapy to kill diseased cancer cells and uses Chinese medicine as a supplement to protect the body's health, is currently the most ideal treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.