How to check for early stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma

How to detect nasopharyngeal carcinoma in its early stages?

1. Patients with early nasopharyngeal carcinoma first need to be examined through clinical symptoms, naked eye and touch observation. Generally speaking, patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma may experience adverse reactions of varying degrees, such as nosebleeds, tinnitus, headaches, facial numbness and diplopia.

2. Part of the local nasopharyngeal mucosa is intact, but when the patient has clinical symptoms, a local nasopharyngeal MRI enhanced examination is required to clarify the patient's local condition.

3. Early nasopharyngeal carcinoma generally lacks special clinical symptoms, and patients rarely seek medical treatment due to discomfort and clinical symptoms.

Can nasopharyngeal carcinoma lymph node metastasis be cured?

The initial symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are mainly local invasion, such as skull base invasion causing headaches, cranial nerve invasion causing corresponding symptoms: facial numbness, hearing loss, hoarseness, etc. Invasion of the posterior nasal cavity can cause nasal congestion, blood circulation, intermittent nosebleeds, etc.

MRI of the nasopharynx clarifies the stage of the tumor. If the tumor is small, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be performed simultaneously. If the tumor lesion is large, chemotherapy is induced first, the tumor shrinks, and then synchronous radiotherapy and chemotherapy are performed. The several stages of nasopharyngeal tumor metastasis to the lymph nodes depend on the extent of nasopharyngeal tumor invasion.