Nearly half of the patients with nasopharyngeal cancer in China often seek medical attention because they unintentionally find such a lump on their neck, and only after further examination is it found to be nasopharyngeal cancer. Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer who have enlarged lymph nodes in the neck are easily misdiagnosed as inflammation during the initial diagnosis. If a persistently enlarged neck lump appears on the neck, which does not shrink significantly after anti-inflammatory treatment, and is relatively hard in texture, poorly mobile, fused into a mass, and generally not very painful, as a painless neck lump, it must be promptly seen by a hospital. In addition to the neck, metastatic lymph nodes can occasionally be seen in the area in front of the ear, but the main site of metastasis is above the neck, which is the cervical region.