What should I do if nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizes to the lungs? What should I pay attention to in my diet?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a common tumor disease. Once it develops to the late stage, complications will occur, especially symptoms of lung metastasis. Below, the editor will introduce to you: What should I do if nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizes to the lungs? What should I pay attention to in my diet?

Most nasopharyngeal carcinomas are poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas. Radiotherapy is the first choice, and 60 Co or linear accelerator high-energy radiotherapy is often used. The 5-year survival rate of radiotherapy is about 45%. Local recurrence and metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy is the main cause of death. Some patients who still have residual local lesions after external irradiation of 60-70Gy can cooperate with intracavitary afterloading therapy.

Biological immunotherapy is harmless and has no toxic side effects to patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis. It is an autologous immune cell technology that uses certain biotechnologies to cultivate DC immune cells and CIK tumor-killing cells in high-standard laboratories. It then uses a unique double-culture and double-infusion method of DC and CIK combined cells to double-culture and double-infusion to directly kill cancer cells and rebuild the autoimmune system.

What should patients with nasopharyngeal cancer pay attention to in their diet? Do not eat high-iodine foods. Nasopharyngeal cancer patients eat seafood such as crabs, shrimps, scaleless fish, kelp, etc., including iodine foods and iodized salt, and the tumor will rupture. Iodine is widely present in seawater. Iodine can promote the dissolution of soft tissues, has a expectorant effect, and is beneficial to benign tumors and vascular sclerosis. But for hemorrhagic diseases and cancer, it has been avoided. Do not eat spicy foods, and do not put these seasonings when cooking. For example: pepper, ginger, pepper, onion, raw garlic, etc. Spicy hair can easily cause blood heat. Some cancer patients' condition is always out of control because of the food they eat at home, the food they eat in restaurants, and the food they buy on the street.

From this we can see that family members should encourage patients to eat and give them high-protein, high-vitamin, low-fat, easily digestible food, and wish them a speedy recovery.