What should you pay attention to if you have laryngeal cancer?

If laryngeal cancer is confirmed, it must be taken seriously and treated early to prevent the disease from getting worse. For the treatment of laryngeal cancer, surgery is the first choice, with total or partial laryngectomy to preserve the laryngeal function as much as possible. In order to prevent the spread, a certain amount of clearance surgery is required for the cervical lymph nodes. Comprehensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy are taken after surgery, and Chinese medicine is used as an auxiliary treatment to improve the cure rate. Nursing in daily life is extremely critical. Smoking and drinking must be stopped, and spicy, greasy, fried, and pickled foods must not be eaten. At the same time, raw, cold, and foods that easily cause internal heat must not be eaten. Due to the extreme decline in physical fitness caused by the disease, high-protein, high-nutrition, and high-fiber foods must be given in time to supplement small meals, balanced nutrition, and appropriate supplementation of vitamins and trace elements. After the diagnosis of laryngeal cancer, surgical treatment should be the first choice. The choice of surgical method needs to be determined according to the stage of the tumor, including partial laryngectomy and total laryngectomy. In terms of diet, laryngeal cancer needs to pay attention to the following points: eat light food, reduce oily food, increase high-protein food and low-fat food.

Will laryngeal cancer cause hoarseness and breathing difficulties?

Glottic laryngeal cancer is mainly manifested by long-term hoarseness, which is difficult to cure. Since there is almost no pain in the early stage, patients may mistakenly think it is pharyngitis, but the disease will progressively worsen. As the cancer cells develop and spread, it gradually develops into voice change and loss of voice. The treatment of laryngeal cancer should adopt a comprehensive treatment method with surgery as the main method and auxiliary chemotherapy. The surgical principle is: the whole tumor is completely removed within the safe range, and the surgery is performed on the periphery of the tumor to achieve surgical clinical radical cure. Laryngeal cancer may manifest as hoarseness and difficulty breathing.

Difference between Laryngeal Polyps and Laryngeal Cancer

Laryngeal cancer requires surgery or radiotherapy in the early stage, chemotherapy and targeted therapy in the middle and late stages, and the prognosis is significantly worse than that of laryngeal polyps. Laryngeal cancer generally presents as an uneven cauliflower-like mass, while laryngeal polyps are generally smooth and transparent masses, and pathological tissue biopsy can confirm the diagnosis. The main difference between vocal cord polyps and laryngeal cancer is that one is a benign lesion and the other is a malignant lesion.