What are the mid-term symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and how does traditional Chinese medicine treat it

What are the mid-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Painless lumps in the neck In the early stage of the disease, lymph nodes will appear in the patient's neck, and lumps will gradually form in the middle stage. During this period, nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients may have one or more lumps of different sizes in the neck, which are caused by the metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma to the cervical lymph nodes. They are hard to the touch, with a rough surface, no movement, and no adhesion to the skin.

2. Cranial nerve symptoms are the symptoms that need to be treated intensively in patients in the middle stage, and they cause particularly serious damage to health. If nasopharyngeal carcinoma invades the middle cranial fossa and compresses adjacent tissues, it will cause a variety of cranial nerve symptoms such as blurred vision, diplopia, and fixed eyeballs. It will also cause throat paralysis, dysphagia and sensory disorders, hoarseness, tongue paralysis, and even atrophy.

3. Unilateral headaches At each stage of the disease, the headache symptoms of NPC patients will have certain characteristics. In the middle stage of NPC, the patient's headache is mostly unilateral, and the pain may be swelling or dull pain. This is because the tumor easily invades the skull or destroys the skull base bone.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that human tumors can coexist, and treatment options can regulate the patient's immune function and improve the patient's quality of life. Traditional Chinese medicine combined with radiotherapy can enhance the body's immunity, prevent metastasis, and significantly improve the long-term survival rate of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. For some advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who are unable or unwilling to receive radiotherapy or chemotherapy due to remote metastasis or decreased physical function, TCM treatment should be given priority.

TCM treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, starting from the overall concept, should pay attention to the relationship between the overall situation of the whole body and the local tumor in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In the early and middle stages of the disease, that is, the prosperity and decline of the evil of the body, it is mainly syndrome differentiation treatment, clearing away heat and detoxification, promoting blood circulation, eliminating blood stasis, softening, detoxification, and inhibiting tumor growth. In the middle and late stages of the disease, the positive energy is damaged and the evil energy is arrogant, corrective training treatment, supplementary attack. The treatment method of "human tumor coexistence" promotes the improvement of the patient's quality of life.