Nasopharyngeal carcinoma spread symptoms?

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The cancer cells of patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma flow to the whole body through blood circulation, which has a certain impact on patients. We understand the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can help patients better cure the disease and effectively improve the life cycle of patients. So, what are the symptoms of metastatic advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma? Now let's learn about it.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma spread symptoms?

Nasal, ear, eye and oral symptoms: the infiltrating and expanding surface of primary cancer is ulcer infection. Most patients will have the symptoms of the above parts, but the time and order of clinical symptoms are determined according to the location and size of the tumor: the cancer is located at the top of the nasopharynx, and the first symptom is blood in the snot, which can spit out from the mouth when there is a lot of blood, accompanied by nasal congestion; The tumor is located in the pharyngeal recess. In the early stage, it often has tinnitus, ear closure, hearing loss and so on. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as catarrhal exudative otitis media or suppurative otitis media; The tumor infiltrated into the eye, manifested as unilateral exophthalmos, diplopia, eye movement disorders, etc; The tumor infiltrated the medial pterygoid muscle and presented with difficulty in opening the mouth. When the hypoglossal nerve was involved, the movement of the lingual muscle was impaired and the tongue deviated to the healthy side.

Cranial nerve symptoms nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) can involve cranial nerves and cause corresponding symptoms. Clinically, cranial nerves V and VI are the first to be involved. With tumor expansion, cranial nerves III, IV, IX and X are also damaged. Cranial nerves I and II are located in the anterior part of the skull, while cranial nerves VII and VIII are located in the petrous part of the temporal bone. The upper cranial nerves were involved, showing loss of function. Headache is often a sign of the tumor expanding into the brain. Headache is a persistent and fixed severe migraine, mostly located in the trigeminal sensory distribution area, the nature can be distending pain, muggy pain or tight pain.

Cervical sign mainly refers to the mass caused by cervical lymph node metastasis. Clinically, painless mass in neck can be the first symptom, or even the only symptom. The mass first appeared on one side and enlarged rapidly, then involved the opposite side of neck.

matters needing attention

Although the above mentioned a lot of ways to deal with this disease, we still recommend that patients who want to know or have this kind of disease go to the hospital to avoid taking drugs by mistake and endangering their health.