What are the causes of headache after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for esophageal cancer

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After suffering from esophageal cancer, I immediately went for chemotherapy, although the condition has improved to a certain extent, but in recent days I began to have a headache, so I immediately asked the doctor. Now I'd like to introduce the causes of headache after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for esophageal cancer.

What are the causes of headache after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for esophageal cancer

First, esophageal cancer refers to the malignant tumor of esophageal mucosa epithelium, which is a common malignant tumor of digestive tract. The pathology of early esophageal cancer can be divided into concealed type, erosive type, plaque type and papillary type, and the middle and late stage can be divided into medullary type, mushroom umbrella type, ulcer type and constriction type. If radiotherapy and chemotherapy, headache, the basic esophageal wall thickening compression blood vessels, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain.

Second, esophageal cancer is equivalent to the category of "choking diaphragm" in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of the disease is based on internal deficiency, and the imbalance of human internal environment caused by spleen and stomach qi deficiency and seven emotions provides conditions for the invasion of external pathogens. Due to spleen deficiency and seven emotions, bad eating habits such as phlegm and blood stasis, hot drink and hot wine can cause direct damage to the esophagus, which eventually leads to the increase of phlegm and blood stasis in the esophagus. In addition, deficiency of Qi and blood and internal friction of essence and blood make the esophagus dry up, which is also one of the important reasons for choking diaphragm.

Third: according to the different clinical manifestations, it can be divided into phlegm Qi mutual knot, blood stasis and toxin block, yin deficiency and internal heat, Qi deficiency and Yang Micro syndrome. TCM syndrome differentiation should focus on Regulating Qi and phlegm, removing blood stasis and detoxification, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, supplementing qi and warming yang.

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In fact, many people suffer from esophageal cancer, after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, will appear headache symptoms, if this happens, we had better be able to immediately accept the relevant treatment, and ensure the law of life, more with the treatment.