Guangdong Province is a high incidence area for nasopharyngeal cancer, and many patients with nasopharyngeal cancer can be found in the outpatient clinic every year. Recently, we met an elderly patient with nasopharyngeal cancer, who had not seen a doctor for more than one year for nasal congestion, but came to the ophthalmology clinic only when his eyes were protruding and his vision was almost lost. The nasopharyngeal mass was biopsied and sent for pathological examination before it was found to be nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is undifferentiated pyknotic non-keratinizing, that is, a type with a higher degree of malignancy. When nasopharyngeal cancer develops to advanced stage, the treatment effect is much worse.
In fact, if we pay more attention in our daily life, it is possible to detect nasopharyngeal cancer at an early stage. For example, if the above-mentioned patient went to see a doctor when nasal congestion appeared 1 year ago, perhaps, it could be cured early. The common symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer include nasal bleeding or blood in retractable sputum, nasal congestion and tinnitus, etc. Some patients are found to have nasopharyngeal masses during physical examination. Some patients develop with secretory otitis media.
If patients do not take it seriously, they may delay the time of treatment.
Nasopharyngeal cancer is not terrible, and many early stage patients can be cured. Early detection and early treatment are very crucial to the prognosis.