What are the characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastases to the lymph nodes and how to treat it

The symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are relatively serious, causing dizziness, nosebleeds, etc., and it is easy to metastasize. So what are the characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizing to the lymph nodes? How to treat it?

What are the characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis to lymph nodes?

Characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastatic lymphoma: The most typical sites of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastatic lymphoma are below the earlobe, behind the mandibular angle, and the deep surface of the muscle from the ear to the chest at the neck of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. They are difficult to detect in the early stages of the disease. These lymph nodes can occur alone or in combination with multiple lymph nodes, usually with a diameter of more than 3 cm. Some patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastatic lymphoma are discovered late and have poor lesion activity, which can manifest as enlarged lymph nodes throughout the neck.

How to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastases to the lymph nodes?

1. Combination of Chinese and Western cultures

The treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the late stage usually adopts the combination of Chinese and Western medicine. When treating this disease, we should not only consider removing the local cancer of the patient, but also pay attention to systemic treatment to improve the patient's quality of life and prolong the patient's survival.

2. Radiotherapy

Since radiotherapy can directly kill cancer cells, patients with advanced disease often choose local radiation, but the premise is that the patient is in good physical condition. The radiotherapy dose, radiation range and radiation course of advanced patients should also be carefully selected according to human body function and the size of the lesion. Generally speaking, combined chemotherapy is one of the common methods for treating patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Radiotherapy is better than simple chemotherapy.

3. Chemotherapy

Radiotherapy can be used for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but radiotherapy lacks selectivity for normal cells, and killing cancer cells will also damage normal cells and impair human functions. Late-stage treatment of the disease is often combined with traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the purpose of improving efficiency and reducing toxicity. Patients with a wide range of metastases and weak bodies should not use radiotherapy and chemotherapy, so conservative traditional Chinese medicine treatment can be chosen.

Through the above introduction, we know that nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizes to the lymph nodes. If this happens, it is more serious and the patient must receive radiotherapy and chemotherapy to effectively control the disease.