What is the treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, and Western medicine is more common. The main method of Western medicine to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma is through radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and this type of treatment will inevitably cause harm to the human body.

Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with traditional Chinese and western medicine

1. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Traditional Chinese Medicine divides nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients into three etiologies and pathogenesis: deficiency of vital energy, phlegm coagulation and blood stasis, and accumulation of cancer toxins, namely: "deficiency, stasis, and toxicity". Traditional Chinese Medicine then focuses on strengthening the vital energy, replenishing deficiency, eliminating phlegm and blood stasis, attacking toxins and dispersing nodules according to the specific pathogenesis, so as to restore the patient's balance of qi, blood, yin and yang. While focusing on local treatment, we must also pay attention to regulating the body's functions and paying attention to the replenishment of vital energy. For example, patients with liver cancer may have symptoms such as abdominal distension, rib pain, poor appetite, and fatigue. It is difficult to achieve the ideal therapeutic effect of patients surviving for more than ten years using Chinese medicine alone by simply attacking the problem of dispersing nodules and eliminating tumors without paying attention to regulating the spleen and stomach and protecting the vital energy.

2. Western medicine treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Although radiotherapy and chemotherapy are important means of treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma, due to their lack of specificity and selectivity, the harm they cause to the human body cannot be ignored. Therefore, their indications and contraindications should be strictly controlled, and one should not blindly pursue "tumor-free survival" and lose sight of the essential goal. While "killing and suppressing" tumor cells, Chinese medicine can also improve the body's immunity and the body's ability to regulate the internal environment, effectively protecting and improving the body's disease resistance. Its long-term efficacy and long-term survival rate are significantly improved. Therefore, I believe that "long-term survival with tumor" is more clinically realistic than short-term "tumor-free survival" (in fact, it is impossible to achieve absolute tumor-free). Theoretically, chemotherapy drugs cannot completely eliminate cancer cells in the body. In addition, recurrence and metastasis are also related to the body's immune function, and traditional Western medicine treatments can often lead to a decline in the body's immune function. However, in reality, the reduction of the tumor does not lead to an extension of the expected survival period or an improvement in the quality of life.