Will picking your nose cause nasopharyngeal cancer?

Will picking your nose cause nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Picking your nose has nothing to do with nasopharyngeal cancer. Picking your nose mainly irritates the anterior nostrils, which may cause ulcers, erosions, and even bleeding of the nasal mucosa. The main lesions of nasopharyngeal cancer are in the nasopharynx. Nasopharyngeal cancer is mainly related to factors such as smoking, drinking, and long-term chronic sinusitis.

2. Picking your nose frequently will not cause nasopharyngeal cancer, but it may damage the nasal mucosa and cause nose bleeding, which may cause local infection. If you pick your nose frequently, it is easy to cause erosion of the local nasal mucosa.

What are the common treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor, and its early symptoms are not very obvious, so it is easy to be ignored and misdiagnosed. What needs attention is that according to clinical epidemiological surveys, this malignant tumor has a certain familial aggregation and hereditary nature. The pathological type of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mostly poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.

It is extremely sensitive to radiotherapy. Radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy is the clinical first choice, and Chinese medicine can be used as an auxiliary treatment to reduce toxic side effects and improve cure rates. Targeted drugs combined with chemotherapy and biological immunotherapy can also be used to effectively improve the quality of life and prolong survival. The treatment methods for nasopharyngeal carcinoma mainly include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, anti-vascular therapy, immunotherapy, surgical treatment and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor that occurs in the mucosal epithelium of the nasopharynx, and is prone to occur in the top and side walls of the nasopharynx, especially the pharyngeal recesses.