How long a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma can live after metastasis usually depends on the location and extent of metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. If a patient with nasopharyngeal cancer has local lymph node metastasis, such as submandibular or cervical lymph node metastasis, it usually does not affect the patient’s life expectancy after local nasopharyngeal cancer is treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy and the metastatic lymph nodes are surgically removed. If distant metastasis occurs, such as bone metastasis, lung metastasis or brain metastasis, the metastasis here is relatively special and more difficult to treat, with the invasion of cancer cells and the gradual expansion of metastases, the patient’s life expectancy is usually less than 2 years. Surgery can be taken as appropriate.