What are the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer?

Recognizing the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer lays a solid foundation for early diagnosis and treatment of laryngeal cancer. The cure rate of surgery and radiotherapy for stage I laryngeal cancer is over 90%. Stage II and some stage III tumors can undergo surgery to preserve laryngeal function, sometimes including neck dissection. Stage I or II voice reconstruction surgery can enable some patients to acquire language communication ability. After surgery, voice function can also be acquired through esophageal pronunciation, artificial voice generators, etc. Advanced laryngeal cancer should be treated with total laryngectomy, which sometimes must include neck dissection.

Early symptoms of throat cancer include:

1. Persistent hoarseness, foreign body sensation in the throat or pain when swallowing:

The most common symptom of laryngeal cancer in the early stage is hoarseness. If you find unexplained hoarseness in your daily life, and the symptoms last for more than three weeks and do not gradually improve, you should go to the hospital for timely medical treatment and have an ENT specialist perform a careful laryngeal endoscopic examination. Because most laryngeal cancers clinically originate from the vocal cords, even very small vocal cord tumors can cause abnormal vocal cord vibrations and cause hoarseness. Symptoms such as a foreign body sensation in the throat or pain when swallowing are early symptoms of supraglottic laryngeal cancer, but tumors that originate from the vocal cords will also cause a foreign body sensation in the throat or pain when swallowing once they develop to the middle and late stages. Patients and doctors should not take it lightly because the symptoms are not obvious and delay diagnosis and treatment.

2. Inner ear pain:

When laryngeal cancer develops to a certain extent and produces ulcers and severe inflammation in the throat, it can cause reflex pain of the nerves. Early vocal cord 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 symptom is pain in the inner ear on the same side.

3. Blood in sputum and difficulty breathing:

Because the tumor carries a large number of abnormal new blood vessels, patients often find 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. When the tumor deteriorates severely and increases 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, leading to breathing difficulties.

Laryngeal cancer is a common malignant tumor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in my country. Among all cancers, laryngeal cancer has a relatively high cure rate and can be called a "curable cancer". Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common type of laryngeal cancer, followed by basal cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, etc. Understanding and paying attention to the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer can help early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment, and the correct choice of treatment plan.

The above is a brief introduction to "What are the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer?" For people who are related to the pathogenic factors of laryngeal cancer, it is recommended to take preventive measures for laryngeal cancer and receive specific treatment according to the doctor's instructions. I hope that patients can recover soon! If you have other questions about laryngeal cancer, please consult our experts online or call for consultation.

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