Can nasopharyngeal carcinoma be cured? What are the treatments?

Can nasopharyngeal cancer be cured? What are the treatments?

1. Can nasopharyngeal carcinoma be cured? There is a chance that it can be cured. The treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lies in early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. The earlier the tumor is treated, the lower the recurrence rate and the higher the survival rate. Especially when the tumor has not metastasized and has not even infiltrated the mucosal layer, deep quadratus muscle layer, and surrounding tissues, surgical resection can be said to directly block the development of the tumor.

2. If the disease is in the late stage, it is difficult to cure it completely. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy cannot completely remove the spread of tumor cells. When the tumor is in the late stage, distant metastasis has occurred. Common metastases are lymph nodes, lungs, liver, brain and bones. The tumor is infiltrated around the tumor. It is difficult to completely remove the primary lesion with large-scale surgery. Many metastatic lesions cannot be completely removed by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The chance of tumor recurrence and progression is very high. The purpose of treatment is more of palliative treatment, limiting and inhibiting the progression of the tumor, improving the quality of life and increasing the survival time.

3. The main treatment methods for nasopharyngeal tumors are radiotherapy, chemotherapy and biological immunotherapy. Radiotherapy is the first choice for the treatment of nasopharyngeal tumors. It has a more direct killing effect on cancer cells, but it will also cause damage to normal cells. The dose, irradiation range, and number of irradiation courses should be carefully selected according to the scope of the lesion and human body function. Combined chemotherapy is also one of the more commonly used methods for the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal tumors. It is often combined with radiotherapy, and the effect is better than simple radiotherapy or simple chemotherapy. In addition, in view of the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the human body, biological immunotherapy can be combined in the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal tumors to play a role in increasing efficacy and reducing toxicity.