Can nasopharyngeal cancer cause dry mouth?

Can nasopharyngeal cancer cause dry mouth?

1. Nasopharyngeal cancer can cause persistent nasal congestion and breathing with the mouth open, which can cause congestion of the throat mucosa, leading to symptoms of dry mouth and itchy throat. In addition, comprehensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cause certain damage and atrophy to some glands in the oral cavity, causing insufficient secretion of oral mucous glands, leading to symptoms of dry mouth. Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer may experience dry mouth.

2. Especially after patients are diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, they usually take some radiotherapy or radiotherapy and chemotherapy for treatment. During the treatment process, it is easy to cause dry mouth, mainly because of the side effects of treatment. Nasopharyngeal cancer may cause patients to have dry mouth.

Can nasal CT scan diagnose nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

The main clinical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma vary. The manifestation is chronic nasal congestion, which may also manifest as bloody nasal discharge, headache, stuffy ears, hearing loss, or swollen lymph nodes in the neck. It is recommended to visit the ENT department for nasal endoscopy to examine the nasopharyngeal mucosa, nasopharyngeal CT examination, and biopsy if there is a neoplasm in the nasopharynx.

It may just be rhinitis, sinusitis or combined with nasal septum deviation. Most of the time, nasopharyngeal cancer cannot be detected. A CT scan of the nose can check whether there are foreign objects in the nose, throat or throat, but it cannot confirm that it is cancer. Local tissue needs to be extracted for testing to be clear. Nasopharyngeal cancer is a malignant tumor of the nasopharynx.