How should nasopharyngeal carcinoma be treated and what are the new therapies?

How should it be treated clinically? What new treatments are there?

1. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma often occurs in the pharyngeal recess and anterior wall of the nasopharynx. The lesions can be nodular, ulcerative, submucosal infiltrating, and most are poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas. Others may be adenocarcinomas, undifferentiated carcinomas, etc. Radiotherapy is a common method for treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Conventional radiotherapy has many complications, so three-dimensional conformal or intensity-modulated radiotherapy is recommended. During radiotherapy, chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine, and immunotherapy can be used to improve the efficacy.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine also has a good effect on the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Many patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma have a sharp decline in physical condition due to tumor consumption and symptoms of metastasis and complications. Traditional Chinese medicine can effectively improve the body's immune function, improve physical fitness, and effectively inhibit and kill cancer cells in the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

3. TCM treatment can also help stabilize the condition, effectively control the advanced nasopharyngeal cancer cells, prevent further spread and metastasis, improve clinical symptoms, and, to a certain extent, improve the patient's quality of life and prolong life. TCM treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal cancer makes up for the shortcomings of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and has an absolute advantage in the comprehensive treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer and has been widely used.

4. Currently, the latest treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma is immunotherapy. After nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients receive radiotherapy or chemotherapy, the anti-cancer mechanism in the body is also damaged, making it difficult to fight against the lymphoma virus that causes the cancer. The new therapy hopes to induce the patient's immune system so that the patient's anti-cancer cells can recognize the lymphoma virus and eliminate it.