What kind of virus causes nasopharyngeal cancer and how to treat it

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a type of cancer. Although some friends think that nasopharyngeal carcinoma is not serious, it is necessary to know the information about nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Next, the author will introduce to you what virus can cause nasopharyngeal carcinoma? How to treat it?

More than 90% of Chinese people are infected with Epstein-Barr virus when they are young, and Epstein-Barr virus infection is very common. The occurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is obviously regional, so Epstein-Barr virus infection cannot be considered the cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. However, in a large number of studies, Epstein-Barr virus is closely related to nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is related to viral infection. Of course, it does not mean that if you are infected with EB virus, you will definitely get nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The development of cancer is a process and is definitely the combined influence of multiple factors. Preventing the occurrence of cancer is more important than treating cancer.

The treatment of NPC should be combined with the stage of the patient. When treating NPC in the first stage, the nasopharyngeal tumor is usually treated with single radiotherapy, and the neck lymph nodes are treated with preventive external radiotherapy.

Treatment of early stage II NPC tumors is small and without lymph node metastasis, usually treated with single radiotherapy, external radiotherapy for NPC tumors and preventive radiotherapy for neck. The prognosis of patients with advanced stage is poor, and these patients need systemic chemotherapy and palliative radiotherapy.

EB virus may cause nasopharyngeal carcinoma. How to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma, should be based on the patient's stage of appropriate treatment.