Can nasopharyngeal cancer be cured? What foods should I eat more of?

Is nasopharyngeal cancer curable? What foods should you eat more of?

1. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma invades deep structures in the early stage. It often occurs in the nasopharyngeal recess and the anterior wall. The lesions can be nodular, ulcerative, mucosal infiltration, etc. Most of them are poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas. Others may be adenocarcinomas, undifferentiated carcinomas, etc.

2. Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma includes radiotherapy, surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc. Radiotherapy is considered the first choice for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Most nasopharyngeal carcinomas are poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas, which are more sensitive to radiotherapy. Radical radiotherapy can be used for early and mid-stage cases, and palliative radiotherapy can be appropriately used for late-stage cases.

3. Chemotherapy has a certain short-term effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Patients in the middle and late stages often use chemotherapy in combination with radiotherapy, such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, simultaneous radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and adjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for advanced cases with distant metastasis. Surgical treatment is only suitable for cases with high differentiation that are insensitive to radiotherapy and residual or recurrent cases after radiotherapy.

What foods should you eat more of?

Pay more attention to the following diet during the illness. If you have chest pain, you should eat horseshoe crab, rapeseed, loofah, kiwi, wheat, and crucian carp; if you have cough and phlegm, you should eat ginkgo, radish, mustard, almonds, orange peel, monk fruit, peach, orange, grapefruit, etc.; if you have a fever, you should eat cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon, lettuce, lemon, olive, mulberry, chestnut, duck, and green fish; if you have hemoptysis, you should eat green plum, lotus root, sugarcane, pear, cotton, yellow croaker, turtle, oyster, and light vegetables.