The treatments for advanced stage of hypopharyngeal cancer include medication, surgery, radiotherapy and other treatments.
1. Drug treatment: patients with advanced hypopharyngeal cancer can be treated with chemotherapeutic drugs such as 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin and so on under doctors’ instruction.
2. Surgery: if advanced hypopharyngeal cancer invades into esophagus or cervical esophagus, hypopharyngeal cancer resection without preserving laryngeal function and neck dissection are needed.
3. Radiotherapy: radiotherapy can be a kind of palliative treatment for advanced hypopharyngeal cancer patients who cannot be operated due to contraindications to surgery.
It is suggested that patients with advanced hypopharyngeal cancer need to seek medical treatment in time, and doctors will choose targeted treatment according to patients’ conditions.