Throat Cancer Prevention

Nasopharyngeal cancer is a malignant tumor arising from the epithelial lining of the nasopharynx, which is the highest part of the nasopharynx, just behind the nose. Nasal cancer is often detected late because the disease progresses silently, the symptoms of the disease are not specific, easy to be confused with other diseases. Moreover, the arch is deep, an area that is not easily accessible to non-specialist doctors. Symptoms of the disease are mostly “borrowed” symptoms of nearby organs and are usually unilateral. 

Symptoms of oropharyngeal cancer

Common symptoms that warn of the risk of throat cancer include:

• Swollen lymph nodes in the neck
• Nose bleeding, nasal congestion, nasal sound
• Hearing loss, tinnitus or ear fullness
• Recurrent ear infections
• Sore throat
• Headache
• Pain or numbness in the face
• Blurred or double vision
• Limited opening of the mouth.   

Factors that increase the risk of throat cancer

• Epstein Barr virus infection (EBV)
• Habit of using fermented foods such as pickles, salted fish, sour-fermented smoked meat, … (contains a lot of nitrosamines) . Toxic fumes, chemicals, radiation, etc.
• Family history
• Smokers and drinkers

Treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer

Treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer is mainly radiotherapy, in late cases a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy may be required, sometimes even must be combined with surgery

How to prevent oropharyngeal cancer

• Practice regular sports, have a reasonable working and living regimen to improve the body’s resistance.
• Stay away from tobacco and limit alcohol intake.
• Eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, limit the use of salty salted foods such as salted meat, salted fish, fermented foods such as pickles, salted tubers, etc., which contain a lot of Nitrosamine.
• Periodic health check, perform tests to screen for oropharyngeal cancer.
• Early treatment of infections in the nasopharynx.
• When detecting abnormal signs in the ear, nose and throat area such as prolonged headache, nosebleeds, tinnitus, cervical lymphadenopathy, etc., should go to an ENT specialist, endoscopy and do the necessary tests. needed to diagnose the disease.

    Prevention is better than cure, you should have a plan to check your health periodically or when there are abnormal signs mentioned above so that you can detect it early and treat it promptly.

    The intensive screening package Ear – Nose – Throat of the American International Clinic (AIH) will help you detect early and accurately nasopharyngeal cancer, you will be consulted with an experienced Doctor, results Combining modern nasopharynx system and testing for EBV virus (oropharyngeal cancer virus), … helps you assess your health status and detect abnormalities in the earliest stage.

    The Department of Otolaryngology of the American International Clinic (AIH Clinic) is fully equipped with diagnostic facilities, including the NBI (Narrow Banding Imaging) flexible endoscopic system. This is a gentle endoscopic technique, causing no discomfort to the patient, and the patient does not need to prepare anything before the endoscopy. This technique has been and is being applied in many countries around the world. NBI endoscopy with narrow light frequency band, using monochromatic 2-wavelength light, makes it easy to detect very small lesions along with abnormal vascular proliferation of the mucosal surface, the boundary between healthy tissue and diseased tissue. This will help in detecting cancer at an early stage.

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