What are the symptoms before death from nasopharyngeal cancer?

Many people will feel very painful and even die from nasopharyngeal cancer. Here is an introduction to the symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer before death. What are they?

Among the many symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, blood in the nose is a common early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which manifests as blood in the nose or blood in the nose when sucked back from the mouth, also known as blood in the sputum. Blood in the nose often occurs after getting up in the morning. When the amount of blood in the nose is not large, it is often neglected by patients and mistaken for rhinitis or sinusitis, or is treated as hemoptysis in the internal medicine department.

The symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer in the late stage before death include:

⑴ Combined infection: Due to low immunity, infectious complications are prone to occur, and the original non-pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc. in the body will take advantage of the situation and aggravate the condition. This kind of infection is often difficult to control and can cause high fever, coma, and death.

⑵ Bleeding: Bleeding in NPC patients can be caused by suppression of bone marrow hematopoiesis, thrombocytopenia, or by direct damage of blood vessels by cancer cells or severe infection, leading to rupture of blood vessels. Large amounts of blood loss can cause death of the patient.

⑶ Damage to important organs: In important organs, cancer cells invade and directly destroy the normal structure of organs, which can cause organ function damage and lead to death. The most important organ is the brain, which contains the respiratory and circulatory centers. If the cancer blocks important channels, it can easily lead to death.

⑷ Cachexia caused by nutritional depletion: Cancer cells grow rapidly and consume a large amount of nutrients from the human body; patients are seriously ill and reduce their nutrient intake. Over time, anemia, edema, fatigue, and even extreme hunger-induced malnutrition, also known as cachexia, will occur, and eventually the patient will die from systemic failure.