What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer?

What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer?

Symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer include:

1. Nasal symptoms. In the early stages, there may be blood or blood when blowing the nose, sometimes not, which will not attract the patient's attention. The continuous increase of the tumor will block the nostrils and cause nasal congestion, starting from one side and then bilaterally.

2. Ear symptoms: If the tumor occurs in the pharyngeal recess, it may compress or block the pharyngeal opening of the Eustachian tube in the early stage, leading to tinnitus, ear closure and hearing loss.

3. Swollen lymph nodes in the neck. Cervical lymph node metastasis is relatively common, with 60% of cases presenting with swollen lymph nodes as the first symptom. Swollen lymph nodes metastasize to the upper lymph nodes deep in the neck, which are progressively enlarged, inactive, and non-tender, starting from one side and then developing to both sides.

4. Cranial nerve symptoms. The tumor invades the skull through the rupture foramen of the pharyngeal recess on the affected side, often invading the V and VI cranial nerves first, and then affecting the II, III, and IV cranial nerves, such as headache, facial numbness, limited eyeball abduction, ptosis, etc.