Can nasopharyngeal cancer cause eardrum retraction?

Can nasopharyngeal cancer cause a retracted eardrum?

1. In the early stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, patients may experience symptoms such as tympanic membrane sinking, stuffy ears, tinnitus, and hearing loss. Some patients may experience unexplained symptoms such as blood in the nose when blowing, or blood in the nasal mucus when inhaling, nasal congestion, headache, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck.

2. If diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, you should go to a regular cancer hospital for treatment in time. In daily life, we should avoid staying up late, overwork, and staying in a noisy environment for a long time. Normal nasopharyngeal cancer will not cause the tympanic membrane to sink.

What are the types of nasopharyngeal cancer?

98% of nasopharyngeal carcinomas are poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas, so radiotherapy is the first choice for treatment. Cobalt 60 or linear accelerators are often used for high-energy radiotherapy. During radiotherapy, chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine and immunotherapy can be combined to prevent distant metastasis, improve radiotherapy sensitivity or reduce radiotherapy complications.

There are three general types of nasopharyngeal cancer:

Ascending type, also called cranial nerve type or type A: There is invasion of the II, III, IV, V, and VI cranial nerves and skull base bone damage, but no cervical lymph node metastasis.

The pathological classification of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mainly divided into keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma, differentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma and undifferentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma.

Epidemiological data show that 98% of rhinitis patients suffer from differentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma and undifferentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma.