What medicine to take for advanced tongue cancer

In today's society, various cancers are increasing. I wonder if you have heard of tongue cancer. Tongue cancer is one of the most common oral cancers, but not many people pay attention to it. Some people are diagnosed with advanced tongue cancer. Today we will learn about tongue cancer, what we should pay attention to in our daily life if we find that we have advanced tongue cancer, and what medicines we should take for advanced tongue cancer.

Cancer often presents with ulcers and infiltration, accompanied by spontaneous pain and varying degrees of tongue movement disorders. In the late stage of tongue cancer, it can directly exceed the midline or invade the floor of the mouth, as well as infiltrate the lingual periosteum, bone plate or bone of the mandible. Backward, it can extend to the root of the tongue or the anterior pharyngeal pillar and the lateral wall of the pharynx. At this time, the movement of the tongue can be severely restricted and fixed, and the saliva increases and overflows, and it cannot be controlled. Eating, swallowing, and speaking are all difficult. The pain is severe and can be reflected to half of the head. The lymph node metastasis rate of tongue cancer is relatively high, usually around 40%. The most common metastatic site is the deep cervical lymph node group. In the late stage of tongue cancer, lung metastasis or distant metastasis to other parts may occur.

If tongue cancer is discovered in the early stages, it can be treated with surgery. If it is in the late stages, Chinese herbal medicine can be used to treat it and relieve pain.

Late stage symptoms: Swollen tongue filling the mouth or with obvious ulcers, easy to bleed, inability to retract or stretch the tongue, difficulty opening the mouth and eating, foul breath, lumps on the neck and under the jaw, or swelling through the tongue and cheeks, soup or fluid leaking out, emaciation, shortness of breath and fatigue, mental fatigue, pale tongue with greasy coating, and thin, rapid and stringy pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish blood and replenish qi, detoxify and resolve stagnation.

Prescription: Sijunzi Decoction combined with Danggui Buxue Decoction. 10g each of Atractylodes macrocephala, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and raw licorice, 12g of Angelica sinensis, 15g each of Sophora flavescens, Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos, and Scrophularia ningpoensis, 20g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 30g each of Astragalus, Agrimoniae scabra, and Scutellaria barbata.

If the bleeding is severe, add 15g of Bletilla striata and 10g of Radix Sanguisorbae to stop the bleeding; if the swelling and pain in the neck and submandibular area are severe, add 30g of Prunella Vulgaris and 15g of Sargassum to strengthen the ability to disperse the nodules; if the symptoms show yin deficiency and internal generation of virtual fire, add 10g each of Adenophora Root, Asparagus Codonopsis, and Dendrobium Candidum, or use Zhibai Dihuang Wan as the main prescription.