What are the symptoms of laryngeal cancer

What are the symptoms of throat cancer?

Laryngeal cancer can cause sore throat, persistent hoarseness, swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, and even a foreign body sensation in the throat. These are some of the manifestations of laryngeal cancer. When patients find these symptoms, they need to carefully distinguish between laryngeal cancer and sore throat to avoid delaying the disease, which can lead to uncontrolled disease and threaten the patient's life. Most cancers can be effectively controlled and the effect after treatment is also very good.

1. Pain

After the cancer ruptures, you may have a sore throat that sometimes radiates to the ear on the same side, which is also a relatively late symptom.

2. Persistent hoarseness

Patients with laryngeal cancer whose disease mainly involves the vocal cords may experience a hissing sound even if the cancer is small. Hissing is an early symptom that is more likely to occur with glottic and supraglottic cancers. Patients with subglottic cancer are less likely to experience a hissing sound symptom in the early stages, but may experience it in the late stages.

3. Swollen cervical lymph nodes

Laryngeal cancer often metastasizes to the ipsilateral cervical lymph nodes and can also metastasize to the contralateral cervical lymph nodes in advanced stages. Some patients discover laryngeal cancer because they go to the hospital to check for a neck tumor.

4. Foreign body sensation in the throat

This is one of the most common early symptoms of supraglottic laryngeal cancer. If middle-aged and elderly people have throat discomfort, it is best to do a comprehensive and detailed examination and not treat it as chronic pharyngitis.

Laryngeal cancer is very harmful, so you must pay attention to the prevention and treatment of laryngeal cancer, try to quit smoking and avoid drinking. If you have throat discomfort, you must pay attention to it. You must also pay attention to regular physical examinations to detect abnormalities in your body in time.