Can chemotherapy be used for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

Can chemotherapy be used for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

1. Clinically, for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are usually used for comprehensive treatment. If the patient is in good physical condition and can tolerate chemotherapy, it is the main treatment method, which can effectively kill the residual cancer cells in the body and improve the cure rate.

2. The best treatment for this situation is surgery. Only surgery can achieve a radical cure. At the same time, it needs to be combined with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted drug therapy, biological therapy, etc., to control the growth, development and spread of the tumor, so that long-term survival and life can be prolonged. The late stage is a systemic disease, which requires a plan for simultaneous overall and local treatment.

What foods are forbidden for nasopharyngeal cancer patients?

People with nasopharyngeal cancer should not eat spicy foods and pickled vegetables, which are foods rich in nitrite. Eating spicy foods may cause nosebleeds. In addition, pickled vegetables contain high levels of nitrite, which is highly carcinogenic.

If you have nasopharyngeal cancer, you must eat less pickled and barbecued foods, because pickled foods contain nitrosamines, such as pickles, bacon, salted fish, etc. People with nasopharyngeal cancer cannot eat spicy and irritating foods.