How to treat advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a relatively characteristic disease. Many patients delay treatment because the symptoms of the disease are not obvious, resulting in the disease being discovered in the late stage. How should nasopharyngeal carcinoma be treated in the late stage of the disease?

What are the treatments for nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Surgical treatment:

Of course, the best cancer treatment is surgical resection, but surgery is only suitable for early-stage cancer that has not metastasized. It is powerless for patients with metastases in the middle and late stages. In addition, nasopharyngeal cancer grows in a special location, with a narrow nasopharyngeal cavity and many important organs nearby, so surgical treatment is difficult and generally not advisable.

2. Chemoradiotherapy:

In my country, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are one of the commonly used methods for treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and they do have a certain effect in treatment. However, since radiotherapy and chemotherapy drugs are severely irritating and toxic to the patient's normal cells and tissues, the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma are very large, so patients are often troubled by the side effects of chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and even dare not accept chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

3. Biological immunotherapy:

For patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, we should control symptoms, stabilize the condition, and prolong life as the principle. The treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma is of great clinical significance for prolonging the patient's life. Only by choosing scientific and standardized treatment methods based on the patient's disease progression and the patient's own immune ability is the key to the successful treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Clinically, the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma often uses biological immunotherapy combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy for comprehensive treatment, which has the best effect.

Therefore, I hope that patients with nasopharyngeal cancer will receive timely treatment and not lose hope in life because they have cancer. As long as they receive timely treatment and cooperate with the doctor's treatment plan.