What foods can I eat and how to treat nasopharyngeal cancer

No matter what disease you have, you should take food therapy in addition to medication to know what you can eat and what you can't eat. So, what foods can you eat for nasopharyngeal cancer? How to treat it?

What foods can patients with nasopharyngeal cancer eat?

Eat more foods that have anti-nasopharyngeal cancer effects, such as large leafy vegetables, taro, konjac, cucumber, dandelion, kiwi, toad, frog, snake meat, mussels, etc. Figs, eggplant, walnuts, mung beans, red beans, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, persimmon, black plum, watermelon, cucumber, pumpkin, asparagus, lemon, jujube, loach, crab, chicken blood catfish, eel, shark, herring, crab, pig brain, sheep brain, duck blood, goose blood, mackerel, sea cucumber. Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food. Avoid dry hot foods such as leeks, onions, garlic, cinnamon and fried foods when coughing up blood. Avoid greasy food.

How is nasopharyngeal cancer treated?

Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and Chinese medicine are the main treatments for middle and late stage NPC. Radiotherapy is still the first choice for the treatment of middle and late stage NPC, which has a more direct killing effect on cancer cells, but it can also cause damage to normal cells. The dose, irradiation range and irradiation course should be carefully selected according to the scope of the lesion and the function of the human body. Combined chemotherapy is also one of the commonly used treatments for middle and late stage NPC, which is more effective than radiotherapy or chemotherapy alone. In view of the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the human body, Chinese medicine can be combined with the treatment of middle and late stage NPC to play a role in enhancing efficacy and reducing toxicity.

After understanding what foods you can eat for nasopharyngeal cancer and how to treat it, pay attention to your usual eating habits, cooperate with each other, improve treatment efficiency, and recover as soon as possible.