What are the tinnitus symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

What are the tinnitus symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma? Most nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients are already in the middle or late stages when they seek medical treatment. Experts say that this is related to the main characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma refers to a malignant tumor that occurs in the nasopharyngeal mucosa. It is usually located deeper in the nasopharynx and is not easy to be discovered early. In addition, people do not pay enough attention to the nasopharyngeal area. Most routine physical examinations do not include an ENT department. These are the reasons for the low rate of medical treatment and late detection.

Pickled food is an important cause of nasopharyngeal cancer

The causes of cancer are very complex. Taking nasopharyngeal carcinoma alone, it may be affected by several major factors such as viral infection, environment, and diet.

Infection with Epstein-Barr virus is an important factor in developing nasopharyngeal cancer. In fact, 70% to 80% of the world's population has been infected with Epstein-Barr virus in childhood, but only a small number of people develop nasopharyngeal cancer in adulthood. In addition, frequent consumption of pickled foods containing a large amount of nitrite is also a reason that cannot be ignored. Nasopharyngeal cancer is highly prevalent in southern my country, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Hunan, which is closely related to the local people's habit of eating pickled foods such as salted fish.

Nasopharyngeal cancer first presents with symptoms such as tinnitus

The situation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is not optimistic. Patients are often easily deceived by symptoms such as tinnitus and neck mass, and go to other departments for treatment, which eventually delays the disease. Compared with most other cancers, nasopharyngeal carcinoma has no typical symptoms, which is also an important reason why it is not easy to be discovered.

Lung cancer patients may have coughing symptoms in the early stage, and laryngeal cancer patients may think of visiting the throat department once they have hoarseness. However, the first symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer are tinnitus, hearing loss, neck mass, bloody nose, etc. Patients who are used to following symptoms for many years are easily confused by these atypical symptoms and go to other departments for treatment, which ultimately makes it difficult to detect the disease in the early stage, thus delaying the disease.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be easily diagnosed with microscopic nasopharyngeal endoscopy

Although the hidden nature of nasopharyngeal cancer is a headache, it also has its own advantages. Unlike lung cancer and liver cancer, which are located in the abdomen and may require surgery to obtain pathological examinations, nasopharyngeal cancer has the advantage of being easy to diagnose. If you suspect nasopharyngeal cancer, you only need to go to the ENT department to use a microscopic nasopharyngeal endoscope to see if there are lesions, such as ulcers. Once they appear, the pathological examination can be directly analyzed and the results can be obtained in a short time.