Symptoms of laryngeal cancer radiotherapy

Symptoms of radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer:

During radiotherapy, patients may experience nausea, vomiting, decreased white blood cells, and decreased platelets. Generally speaking, doctors will prescribe some medications to control these symptoms. In life, patients should also pay attention to regulating immunity through some methods. Radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer is also divided into several types, including preoperative radiotherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy, postoperative radiotherapy, radical external radiation, and palliative radiotherapy.

What are the categories of radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer?

1 Preoperative radiotherapy

It is generally believed that preoperative radiotherapy can increase the survival rate by 10%-15% and reduce the local recurrence rate by 10%-15%. Preoperative radiotherapy can prevent the spread of cancer cells during surgery, reduce local and pelvic implantation, reduce tumor volume, expand surgical indications, relax cancer adhesions, and improve surgical resection rates.

2Intraoperative radiotherapy

It can further kill residual tumor cells after surgery, reduce local recurrence rate, improve survival rate, and reduce radiation damage to normal tissues.

3 Postoperative radiotherapy

Postoperative radiotherapy is a kind of adjuvant radiotherapy and a very important supplementary treatment for surgical treatment.

4 Radical external irradiation

Simple radical radiotherapy is mainly suitable for patients with early stage and particularly sensitive cell types, and can also be used for patients with small tumor volume but due to severe cardiovascular disease and other surgical contraindications.

5Palliative radiotherapy

For patients who cannot tolerate surgical treatment due to poor systemic conditions, radiotherapy can be used as palliative treatment to alleviate symptoms and even prolong survival. Depending on the specific situation, most patients need to cooperate with radiotherapy during treatment. However, due to the large toxic and side effects of radiotherapy, it is recommended to cooperate with traditional Chinese medicine during radiotherapy to alleviate toxic and side effects and improve treatment effects.