What tests are included in nasopharyngeal cancer screening?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor disease that everyone is very familiar with, but it is not as serious as liver cancer, lung cancer and other malignant tumors. As long as nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients are discovered in time, they can receive good treatment and will not cause great harm to the body. If you want to detect nasopharyngeal carcinoma early, you must do a nasopharyngeal carcinoma screening. The following article explains in detail what examination items are included in the nasopharyngeal carcinoma screening?

Nasopharyngeal cancer screening test items:

1. Anterior rhinoscopy and indirect nasopharyngeal endoscopy: This is the most common examination item for clinical diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. During nasopharyngeal endoscopy, the condition of the nasopharynx can be observed very clearly. However, the accuracy of the examination results is directly related to the patient's cooperation and the doctor's proficiency in operation. Therefore, it is hoped that everyone will choose to go to a large hospital for nasopharyngeal endoscopy.

2. Electronic nasopharyngoscopy: This examination can accurately observe early lesions in the nasopharynx. This examination is very simple and causes very little pain to the patient. It is widely used in clinical practice. If an abnormality is found after the electronic nasopharyngoscopy, a biopsy is required directly under the nasopharyngoscope to remove the tissue for pathology, so that an accurate diagnosis can be made.

3. Ultrasound and puncture examination of cervical lymph nodes: If the result of electronic nasopharyngeal endoscopy is negative, but you highly suspect that you have nasopharyngeal cancer, you need to do B-ultrasound and puncture examination of cervical lymph nodes.

4. Enhanced CT and MRI examinations: These two examination items play a very important role in the staging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Each of the two examination items has its own advantages. The doctor will give you some reasonable suggestions based on your actual situation.

5. Whole-body PET-CT examination is of great significance in detecting early distant metastases.

The examination items for nasopharyngeal cancer screening have been explained very clearly above. I hope everyone can do these examination items regularly. In this way, nasopharyngeal cancer can be discovered as soon as possible, and then receive treatment immediately to avoid some serious damage.