What causes stomach pain during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

What causes abdominal pain during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

1. If you experience abdominal pain during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, on the one hand, it may be caused by gastrointestinal spasm, and you can use some drugs to relieve spasm. On the other hand, it may also be acute gastroenteritis, and you can use some drugs to protect the gastric mucosa.

2. Nasopharyngeal cancer patients generally do not have stomach pain. In the early stage of nasopharyngeal cancer, patients will have blood in the sputum. As the nasopharyngeal tumor grows, it will cause Eustachian tube inflammation, secretory otitis media, and headaches. Sometimes the tumor invades the brain and causes intracranial complications, which generally do not cause stomach pain. Stomach pain is mainly caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by chemotherapy drugs.

Etiology and pathology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma refers to the obvious intercellular bridges and/or keratinization seen in the cancerous tissue, not existing alone but in a certain number of NPC.

When the carcinoma in situ proliferates, buds or nails protrude under the epithelium, there is still an obvious basement membrane between the cancer cells and the underlying mucosal lamina propria.Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor that originates from the nasopharyngeal mucosa.