What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis and what should be paid attention to after surgery

What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis? What should I pay attention to after surgery?

Some people with nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis may be cured. This depends on the number of lung metastatic lesions and how you define cure. In the field of oncology, it is considered cured if the disease lasts for more than 5 years. There are indeed cases of multiple lung metastases lasting more than 5 years, but the number of cases is very small.

Symptoms include:

1. Headache: This is a common symptom, accounting for 68.6%. In the early stage, the headache is intermittent and has no fixed location; in the late stage, it is a continuous migraine with a fixed location.

2. Cervical lymph node metastasis: NPC is prone to cervical lymph node metastasis, about 60.3% to 86.1% of which are bilateral metastasis. Cervical lymph node metastasis is usually the first symptom of NPC.

3. Respiration nosebleed: Bleeding symptoms may occur in the early stage, manifested as blood in sputum after suctioning the nose or blood in the nose when blowing the nose. In the early stage, there is only a small amount of blood in the sputum or runny nose, sometimes no blood; in the late stage, there is more bleeding and there may be nosebleeds.

Attention should be paid to the following after surgery:

1. Closely observe whether the blood transfusion and infusion are smooth and whether there is any response. If conditions permit, a dedicated person should be assigned to provide care.

2. A small amount of bleeding after surgery can be stopped by applying pressure. If fresh bleeding is found, the wound should be opened immediately and the bleeding should be stopped again.

3. Wound treatment: Change the dressing on the second day after surgery. If there is not much exudation from negative pressure drainage, it can be removed within 48 hours.

4. Control infection with antibiotics. If there is infection, the antibiotic dose can be increased, and the director can remove the drainage or continue drainage until the infection is controlled.

5. Prevent pulmonary complications. Strengthen the suction in the trachea and drip vitamin solution. If laryngectomy or laryngeal function reconstruction is performed, if aspiration is obvious after the operation, a space tube with an air bag can be worn to prevent aspiration.