What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis and how to treat it

What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis and how to treat it?

The most common sites of NPC metastasis are bones, lungs and liver. Bone metastasis is common in the pelvis, spine and limb bones. Clinical observations have found that with the increase of cervical lymph nodes, the chance of distant metastasis also increases significantly, with a distant metastasis rate of 4.8% to 27%, and autopsy found it to be as high as 76%. Bone metastasis often manifests as bone pain, lung metastasis, dyspnea, hemoptysis, etc. Symptoms of NPC liver metastasis are pain in the liver area, jaundice, etc. NPC often recurs.

There are many treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis. The conventional treatments are as follows:

1. Surgery is one of the most direct and effective methods for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis. If the liver metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is relatively single, no distant metastasis is found, and the cancer lesions are within the resectable range, surgical resection can be considered. In the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, attention should also be paid to whether the patient can withstand the trauma of surgical treatment and whether there are contraindications to surgical treatment. These aspects need to be considered. After surgical resection, the use of chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine consolidation treatment can effectively remove residual cancer cells and potential lesions after surgical treatment, enhance the thoroughness of surgical treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and improve the effect of surgical resection.

2. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are also commonly used treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis. Before radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and the treatment methods for complications should be considered. Clinically, the same comprehensive treatment plan as traditional Chinese medicine is usually adopted. Through traditional Chinese medicine treatment, the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be effectively reduced, the patient's anti-cancer immunity can be enhanced, and the toxicity and efficiency can be reduced.

3. TCM can significantly improve the patient's symptoms, relieve the patient's pain, improve the quality of life, and prolong the survival period through syndrome differentiation and treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma liver metastasis. TCM can also cooperate with various treatment methods of Western medicine to significantly reduce the toxic and side effects caused by Western medicine treatment and enhance the treatment effect.