Patients with laryngeal cancer have a certain chance of recurrence after surgical treatment, or cancer in adjacent areas. When laryngeal cancer recurs, or cancer in adjacent areas occurs, the patient’s survival is definitely worse, and can only be prolonged by aggressive treatment. The biggest question for laryngeal cancer patients who develop esophageal cancer is how is the metastasis of esophageal cancer?
If it is early stage esophageal cancer without distant metastasis such as lymph nodes, then combined with the patient’s physical condition, surgery can be considered, and after surgery in conjunction with radiotherapy, regular postoperative review, diet control, avoiding tobacco, alcohol, stimulating foods, and maintaining an optimistic attitude, the effect should still be relatively satisfactory.
If the condition of esophageal cancer is not optimistic and surgery is difficult or not possible at all, then only palliative conservative treatment methods can be adopted, such as Chinese herbal medicine conditioning, combined with radiotherapy treatment. If the cancer grows further and the symptom of difficulty in eating appears, it can only be solved by inserting a gastric tube. Subsequently, the tumor will also compress the respiratory tract and cause difficulty in breathing, so tracheotomy is needed to solve the ventilation problem. The prognosis for patients with esophageal cancer is poor, with most dying from lung infection, heart and lung failure, or malnutrition.