What are the symptoms of lung metastasis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and how to prevent it

As environmental pollution worsens, the number of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients increases. The following author introduces the symptoms of lung metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients and how to prevent it.

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma often experience symptoms of lung metastasis. The specific symptoms are briefly introduced below.

The most common sites of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis are bones, lungs, and liver. Bone metastasis often manifests as bone pain, while lung metastasis manifests as dyspnea, hemoptysis, etc.

Most patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis have no symptoms, while a few have symptoms such as cough, bloody sputum, chest pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and fever. If the mediastinum is involved, it often compresses the recurrent laryngeal nerve and causes hoarseness. Pleural effusion and severe dyspnea may also occur in the later stages. The symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis are mostly located in the middle and outer zones on both sides of the lung field, and the chances of metastasis to the left and right lungs are equal. Lung metastasis is often asymptomatic in the early stages. Most patients are found in routine chest X-ray examinations that the painful lung metastases are getting bigger, or the tumor invades the pleura and causes pleural effusion, and the patient will cough, have chest pain, and be short of breath.

Lung metastasis is one of the symptoms in patients with NPC, and there are several ways to prevent this symptom.

1. Adjust your diet: Pay attention to your diet and avoid partiality. Eat less salted fish, salted shrimp paste, pickled vegetables, fermented bean curd, etc. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, carrots, sweet oranges, etc. This is the primary condition for preventing the metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

2. Timely detection of early symptoms of metastasis: The most common sites of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis are bones, lungs, and liver. Bone metastasis is common in the pelvis, spine, and limb bones. Bone metastasis mainly manifests as bone pain, lung metastasis manifests as dyspnea, hemoptysis, and liver metastasis manifests as liver pain, jaundice, etc.

3. Regularly check high-risk groups: EB virus infection is closely related to nasopharyngeal carcinoma, so regular checks can be conducted on nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients in high-incidence areas to detect nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis at an early stage. Understanding this is also the key to preventing nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis.

There are many symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer. It is important to understand these symptoms and do a good job in prevention, treatment and treatment.