Does nasopharyngeal cancer cause arm pain?

Does nasopharyngeal cancer cause arm pain?

1. Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer may experience arm pain, but when patients experience arm pain, it is not necessarily caused by nasopharyngeal cancer. It may also be caused by other factors. There are many factors that cause arm pain, such as bumps, overwork, or maintaining a posture for a long time.

2. If arm pain occurs, X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs should be performed to check whether bone metastasis has occurred. If the arm pain is confirmed to be caused by bone metastasis, local radiotherapy should be performed. Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma may undergo chemotherapy during treatment.

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It can also be combined with traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, taking life-enhancing agents to enhance the patient's resistance, reduce inflammation and relieve pain. There is literature supporting that the modern product of traditional Chinese medicine, life-enhancing agents, can inhibit the proliferation of nasopharyngeal cancer cells and induce their differentiation.

For residual lesions or local recurrences after radiotherapy, surgical treatment can be chosen. If the primary lesions in the nasopharynx remain after 3 months after radical radiotherapy, surgery should be chosen if the lesions are relatively limited. If the cervical lymph nodes remain after radical radiotherapy and there is local recurrence, surgical treatment can also be chosen. At the same time, some immune-enhancing drugs and traditional Chinese medicine can be used in combination to prevent distant metastasis.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a common malignant tumor, and squamous cell carcinoma is the most common pathological type of the disease.