Is it normal for your nose to bleed after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?



Nose bleeding after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer is a normal phenomenon if it is caused by damage to nasal mucosa or side effect of radiotherapy, but it is not a normal phenomenon if it is caused by nasal septum deviation and dry rhinitis.

Nose bleeding after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer is a normal phenomenon if it is caused by damage to nasal mucosa and rupture of nasal capillaries due to radiotherapy. In addition, radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer patients may have the side effect of bone marrow suppression, which may also lead to nose bleeding, and this symptom will usually improve after the end of radiotherapy, which is also a normal phenomenon.

If nose bleeding after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer is caused by deviated nasal septum, dry rhinitis, leukemia, hemophilia, thrombocytopenic purpura, or nose trauma, it is an abnormal phenomenon.

It is suggested that nasopharyngeal cancer patients who have nose bleeding after radiotherapy need to consult doctor in time, and the doctor will judge whether it is normal or not according to the cause of nose bleeding, and then give targeted treatment.