What are the treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

Once diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, many patients will become flustered, but no matter what, the most important thing is to actively cooperate with the treatment. So, what are the treatments for nasopharyngeal cancer? What are they?

Common symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are often manifested as symptoms of Eustachian tube obstruction, such as tinnitus, ear closure, hearing loss, etc.; blood in mucus or blood in mucus after nasal inhalation; cervical lymph node enlargement; unexplained headache; abducens nerve paralysis, etc. However, since the nasopharynx is relatively hidden, especially early small lesions and lesions growing under the mucosa, it is difficult to detect them through the posterior nasal endoscopy. It is best to perform fiber or electronic nasopharyngeal endoscopy, nasal endoscopy, CT/MRI examination of submucosal types.

For the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer, you can try Chinese medicine treatment, such as Fuzheng Shengjin Decoction, which contains 12g each of Ophiopogon japonicus, Imperata cylindrica, Codonopsis pilosula, and Glehnia littoralis, 10g each of Adenophora scutellariae, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Radix Rehmanniae, 9g each of Scrophularia ningpoensis, Polygonatum odoratum, and Flos Lonicerae, 30g of Hedyotis diffusa, 20-30g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 3g of Licorice root, and 12-15g of Salvia miltiorrhiza.

Add or subtract: if the white blood cell count is low, add raw astragalus, wolfberry, and Millettia reticulata, and reduce the amount of Imperata root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Scrophularia ningpoensis, and Asparagus cochinchinensis; if there is a fever, add Artemisia annua, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Forsythia suspensa; if there is anorexia, add Jianqu, malt, hawthorn, and chicken's gizzard lining; if there is a headache, add Chuanxiong, Saposhnikovia diffusa, Angelica dahurica, and reduce the amount of Hedyotis diffusa, Imperata root, and Scrophularia ningpoensis; if there is constipation, add dried Trichosanthes kirilowii, hemp seed, and rhubarb; if there is insomnia and irritability, add Schisandra chinensis, mother of pearl, and jujube seed.

Radiotherapy is the preferred treatment for NPC patients because of its special anatomical location and sensitivity to radiotherapy. Radiotherapy has a more direct killing effect on cancer cells, but the adverse reactions of this treatment are also relatively large, causing certain damage to the patient's normal cells. However, with the update of radiotherapy equipment, the improvement of radiotherapy technology and the emergence of synchronous chemoradiotherapy, the 5-year survival rate of NPC patients after treatment is increasing year by year.