2008-07-15

Nasopharyngeal cancer symptoms


As part of nasopharyngeal cancer concealment, early cancer are often no symptoms. A small number of patients have T in the nose or suck blood, oral fluid can be brought out T Blood-streaked phlegm, or the side of tinnitus symptoms. These symptoms of patients prone to neglect. Even to see a doctor, often by non-specialist doctors suspected the flu, or inflammation just symptomatic treatment. Few make the necessary checks nasopharynx. NPC common clinical manifestations are as follows:
(I) eyes, ears, nose symptoms: increased because of nasopharyngeal cancer, the tumor surface Pokui, necrosis caused bleeding, patients can appear repeatedly Caledonia blood, epistaxis, occasionally a large number of bleeding. After the tumor blocking the nose, stuffy nose in there. If nasopharyngeal cancer when I squeeze Eryan Guan, a tinnitus, hearing loss, earache or tympanic membrane invagination Dengzheng. When the tumor of the nearby orbit, or the impact of the orbital cranial nerve when patients have double vision, eye or visual impairment, sudden.
(Ii) headache: often migraine mainly to the top of the temporal headache for多见. There will be pillow of pain. Headache causes and nasopharyngeal near the blood vessels, nerves, bone or the tumor effects. On a fixed, sustained, serious headache to pay particular attention, probably because of damage caused by the skull base.
(Iii) cranial nerve damage: people have 12 pairs of cranial nerves, of which the most vulnerable to the impact of the outreach, the patient will have double vision symptoms. This was followed by the trigeminal nerve, and pulley oculomotor nerve involvement, mainly to the side of the eyeball fixed on the eyelids droop, the pupil to expand, face and body felt numb tongue, mouth activity among jaw deflection. In addition, the hypoglossal nerve, the vagus nerve and also due to PPS violations or oppression from the neck lymph node dysfunction, for the performance of the side Sheji shrink, Shen She preferred tongue disease at the side of the sound dumb, dysphagia, Song Jian Dengzheng side of weakness.
(Iv) cervical lymph nodes: NPC neck metastasis rates are relatively high, and there earlier. Cervical lymph node metastasis common position on the neck lobe is the level of muscle deep. Slightly larger than the beginning of lymph nodes, can be slightly, painless, after lymph node volume increases, the increase in the number and gradually integration fixed. Cervical lymph node top-down development until supraclavicular area. About half of nasopharyngeal cancer patients left hospital for treatment because of neck mass.

Overall, the NPC has three major signs and symptoms of seven. Seven symptoms is epistaxis, stuffy nose, tinnitus, deafness, headache, face Ma, double vision, and so are the three major signs of a new nasopharyngeal, cervical lymph nodes, in a cranial nerve or branch of Paralysis. In each of the patients who do not have all the above mentioned levy.