Inability to eat in the advanced stage of thyroid cancer usually chooses surgical resection, but if the doctor suggests that the patient’s condition is not suitable for surgery, he/she can maintain his/her life through chemotherapy and nutritional support.
1. Surgical resection: thyroid cancer with enlarged thyroid gland may compress the esophagus and cause difficulty in swallowing, thyroid cancer resection can be performed to contact with the compression symptoms, and the patient can eat normally after the surgery, but patients with advanced stage may not have the conditions for the surgery.
2. Chemotherapy: if the dysphagia is caused by the compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve by the cancer, systemic or localized chemotherapy can be carried out to control the progression of the disease, and the symptoms of the disease will be improved with the control of the disease.
3. Nutritional support: if patients with advanced thyroid cancer are physically weak and cannot tolerate surgery, they need to be given nutritional support artificially, such as nasal feeding and intravenous nutritional input to provide daily nutrients, so as to ensure the basic needs of patients’ life.
Therefore, when the manifestation of inability to eat occurs in the advanced stage of thyroid cancer, appropriate treatment should be chosen under the guidance of doctors and according to the specific conditions of patients.