How much does chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma cost? What are the treatment methods?

How much does chemotherapy cost for nasopharyngeal cancer? Are there other treatments?

The cost of a course of treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer varies in different places. Patients can consult at local hospitals. Chemotherapy is a poison treatment, which usually needs to be combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment to play a role in reducing the efficiency of poison. As an auxiliary treatment method, some Chinese medicine extracts can now be selected to replenish vitality, restore the normal value of white blood cells, and enhance the body's immunity and resistance.

There are also radiotherapy, surgery, and chemotherapy.

1. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy has always been the first choice for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The reason is that most nasopharyngeal carcinomas are poorly differentiated cancers with high sensitivity to radiation, and the primary lesions and cervical lymphatic drainage areas are easily included in the scene. Changing the nasopharyngeal neck combined large field irradiation to small field irradiation can reduce radiotherapy reactions and improve survival rates. The most effective and most certain method at present is to use a 60Co teletherapy machine.

2Surgical treatment: resection of primary lesion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

① Early cases of highly differentiated nasopharyngeal carcinomas such as adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, I and II malignant mixed tumors.

② Local recurrence of the nasopharynx after radiotherapy, the lesion is limited to the posterior wall or anterior wall of the top, or only involves the edge of the pharyngeal recess, without infiltration of other parts, no difficulty in opening the mouth, and good physical condition.

③ Radical doses have been given for radiotherapy, and the primary nasopharyngeal lesion has not disappeared or has become radioresistant. Surgical resection can be performed after a month of rest.

3Chemotherapy: Indications for chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

1. Patients at stage IV and stage IV lymph node metastasis are obvious;

2Any patient suspected of distant metastasis;

3 Huge metastasis to cervical lymph nodes, induction chemotherapy before radiotherapy;

4. Chemotherapy as a sensitizer before radiotherapy;

5. Adjuvant chemotherapy after radiotherapy or surgery.