Most patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma need radiotherapy treatment because of their location and early symptoms are not obvious, so surgery cannot cure them. However, the side effects of radiotherapy are great, so we can consider the combination of Chinese medicine to extend the survival rate of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer.
Chinese medicine considers the whole body characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients instead of limiting to the tumor itself. Therefore, in the treatment of tumor, we should pay attention to the elimination of tumor foci, and pay more attention to the anti-tumor ability of the whole body.
The elimination or control of tumor foci can improve the systemic condition, while the improvement of systemic condition and the enhancement of anti-tumor ability can inhibit the proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of tumor cells.
According to different patients, TCM physicians will formulate specific treatment methods and use medicine accordingly to benefit qi and nourish yin, produce fluids and moisten dryness, regulate spleen and stomach, nourish liver and kidney, etc. This can improve patients’ immune function, enhance their ability to resist cancer, improve their physical and nutritional status, reduce and prevent toxic side effects and sequelae of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, control the development of cancer, reduce recurrence and metastasis, prolong survival and improve survival quality. It can play a positive role in controlling cancer development, reducing recurrence and metastasis, prolonging survival and improving quality of life.