Early stage of hypopharyngeal cancer has inconspicuous symptoms, high degree of malignancy, easy to metastasize and recur, so hypopharyngeal cancer is difficult to be treated, but it can not be said to be the most difficult to be treated.
In the early stage of hypopharyngeal cancer, there is no obvious clinical manifestation, and some patients may have foreign body sensation in the pharynx, which is similar to the symptom of chronic pharyngitis, so it is easy to be misdiagnosed and omitted, and then it will be easy to delay the treatment. When hypopharyngeal cancer shows obvious clinical symptoms, the lesion will mostly develop to the middle or late stage, and the optimal treatment period will be missed, and the therapeutic effect will be poor.
Hypopharyngeal cancer is highly malignant, mostly squamous cell carcinoma, prone to cervical lymph node metastasis, which makes it more difficult to treat, and hypopharyngeal cancer is prone to recurrence after surgery due to the special location of lesions.
Hypopharyngeal cancer is difficult to treat and has a poor prognosis, once detected, one should actively cooperate with doctors to standardize treatment.