How to detect throat cancer early?

For young men and women over the age of 30 who need regular screening for throat cancer or those at risk of throat cancer such as families with a history of throat cancer, those who smoke and drink a lot of alcohol. In addition, patients or the elderly and children with frequent abnormal symptoms are nosebleeds, headaches, tinnitus, nasal congestion, cervical lymphadenopathy … should be screening for early detection of throat cancer.

1. Early detection of throat cancer

Throat cancer screening is the only way to detect and diagnose the disease as soon as possible that will help doctors come up with an effective treatment regimen. For men/women over the age of 30 who need regular screening for throat cancer or those at risk of throat cancer, such as families with a history of throat cancer, those who smoke and drink alcohol a lot. In addition, patients or the elderly and children with frequent abnormal symptoms are nosebleeds, headaches, tinnitus, nasal congestion, cervical lymphadenopathy … should be screening for early detection of throat cancer.

2. Throat cancer test

Prolonged tinnitus

Prolonged tinnitus may be a sign of throat cancer

Pay attention to your abnormal manifestations such as nasal congestion, nasal bleeding, or blood and nostrils, ear infections, middle ear fluid, tinnitus, poor hearing, neck lymphadenopathy, smoldering or pervasive headache, paralysis, facial paralysis due to large tumors invading the cranial base causing paralysis of the cranial nerves or unsustify weight loss for a medical examination. early health.

WHO Throat Cancer Classification

  • Carcinoma does not distinguish 75% – 85%.
  • The type of distinguishing mescular cancer accounts for 10% – 15%.
  • Connectc connect cancer (sarcoma) is rare about: 5%.

3. Diagnosis of throat cancer

Your doctor often has an endoscopy to look closely at whether your throat has an ulcer. If the doctor detects something abnormal during an endoscopy, a tissue sample (biopsy) will be required for the test. In some cases, the doctor may also request a sample from the swollen lymph node using the technique "smooth needle poke" as a defining diagnostic factor.

Imaging tests such as C.T.Scan of the nasopharynx, cranial base to assess the invasiveness of the tumor on the base of the skull or MRI for early diagnosis of tumor size, degree of invasiveness and microscopic and pulmonary XQ, abdominal ultrasound to detect distant microscopicity in the liver lung.

4. Throat cancer progresses

Medical examination

Share99 International Health Hub provides screening package, early detection of throat cancer

Tumors are common in the roof of the dome, the back nasal opening, spreading into the nasal cavity causing nasal congestion that is sometimes accompanied by foul-smelling pus or blood or nosebleeds.

The tumor in the proboscis speaker, spreading according to the Eustache proboscis to the middle ear causes tinnitus, which hears markedly poorly on one side. The pain in the ear spreads to the cymosis area. Purulent discharge of ears and blood, with a rotten smell. Eararoscopy: Perforated eardrum, with lumps, necrosis, easy bleeding, the tumour can pass through the ear canal and spread to the outer ear canal.

Tumours that spread downwards to inflate the pharynx affect the voice (open nose voice), swallow or choke, which can spread to the throat behind the tonsils. Possible Trotter syndrome: Deafness,sedation of the jaw, paralysis of the vesicles.

Cancer that spreads to the base of the skull causes in-skull syndrome such as increased in-skull pressure and paralysis of the cranial nerves causing internal bleeding, causing blindness. Soreness in the forehead and eye sockets, paralysis of the half-face, paralysis of the chewing muscles causing throat paralysis, pharyngeal paralysis, cypress muscle paralysis, ladder muscles and tongue paralysis

In front of a patient with the above symptoms, the doctor will meticulously examine the nasopharynx (indirect dome examination through the mirror or dome with an otoscope (hard, soft). If the dome can be seen an organization of pus, ulcers or infiltration is prone to bleeding.

Therefore, it is not subjective but it is necessary to pay attention to recognize your abnormal manifestations to go to the health checkup early. The screening package, and early detection of throat,throat and orry cancer at Share99 includes a full range of necessary services to help detect throat cancer early, detect other abnormalities in the area of the dome – lower throat – nasopharynx.

Customers can directly go to Share99 Health System nationwide for examination or contact the hotline here for assistance.

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About: John Smith

b1ffdb54307529964874ff53a5c5de33?s=90&r=gI am the author of Share99.net. I had been working in Vinmec International General Hospital for over 10 years. I dedicate my passion on every post in this site.

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