Will nasopharyngeal cancer have no symptoms at all?

Does nasopharyngeal cancer have no symptoms at all?

1. In the early stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the symptoms are not particularly obvious. In daily life, patients may experience symptoms such as nasal congestion, nosebleeds, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc. These symptoms may be ignored by most patients. In the middle and late stages, metastasis may occur, with cervical lymphadenopathy as the first symptom.

2. If the lesions of early nasopharyngeal carcinoma are limited, this condition may have no symptoms and can be discovered during nasopharyngeal endoscopy. However, if it is in the middle or late stage, the patient will generally have nasal congestion, nosebleed, headache, dizziness, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck.

3. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma grows behind the nasopharynx. Its location is hidden and there are often no obvious symptoms in the early stages, so it is easily overlooked.

Do patients with nasopharyngeal cancer experience olfactory hallucinations?

Cancer usually brings unimaginable harm to patients. The erosion of cancer cells reduces the body's immunity and threatens life safety. If hallucinations occur, it is mainly related to the worsening of the disease. It may be that cancer cells invade the brain, compress the nerves, and cause nerve disorders. Some clinical manifestations of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients include loss of smell, which causes nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients to lose their sense of smell, mainly due to nasopharyngeal carcinoma lesions.

For example, nasopharyngeal carcinoma directly invades the olfactory nerve center in the brain, causing abnormalities in the olfactory center in the brain, and the patient will experience abnormalities such as loss of smell. At present, in this case, it is mainly due to the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.