Nasopharyngeal cancer is one of the most frequent tumors in China and occupies the first place in the incidence of head and neck malignant tumors. Especially, the incidence rate in Guangdong is the highest in China. The age of onset of nasopharyngeal cancer is mostly between 40 and 60 years old, with more men than women.
1.Surgical treatment Cancer treatment, if it can be removed surgically, is of course the best, but surgery is only applicable to early stage cancer without metastasis, but it can do nothing for those patients who have metastasis in the middle and late stage. However, surgery is only suitable for early stage cancer without metastasis, but it is not suitable for patients with metastasis in middle and late stage.
2. Chemoradiotherapy In China, radiotherapy is one of the commonly used methods to treat nasopharyngeal cancer, and radiotherapy does have a certain role in treatment. However, because radiotherapy drugs have serious irritation and toxicity to patients’ normal cells and tissues, that is, the side effects of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer are very great, so patients often worry about the side effects of chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer and even dare not receive chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer.