Throat cancer, the first signs of which with close observation can be detected by anyone, kills more than four thousand people every year.
This disease is one of the leaders in cancer: it is among the top twenty deadly diseases. However, the first signs of throat cancer, if detected in a timely manner, will help begin early treatment and get rid of the disease forever. How to save your own life? Timely detect the first signs of throat cancer.
Causes
Experts cannot determine the true causes of cancer. Numerous and lengthy studies have only revealed which factors significantly increase the risk of the first signs of throat cancer. Most of these factors are familiar even to children.
• Smoking. It doesn’t matter what a person smokes. Any inhalation of smoke can become a starting shot, after which cancer appears. A smoker can be attributed to a sore throat, which often affects smokers. But most likely, coughing will be the first sign of an ailment.
• Alcohol. It reduces immune defense, makes the body open to ailments of any kind. Unfortunately, alcoholics, even having discovered the first unpleasant symptoms, do not go to the doctor and do not change the lifestyle.
• Drugs.
• Infections of the oral cavity.
• Pollution of the environment in which a person lives.
• Human papillomavirus.
Timely treatment of all diseases, getting rid of deadly habits many times reduce (medical statistics confirm this) the risk of oncology.
Throat cancer. First signs
A photo depicting this disease can be found in the medical literature.
Most people who feel discomfort in the throat do not go to the clinic, preferring self-medication. This can be very dangerous: the first signs of throat cancer are practically no different from a sore throat, SARS, or flu. Therefore, you should be careful here. Most often, the first
signs of throat cancer are manifested:
• pain in the larynx, inconvenience when swallowing;
• an increase in lymph nodes, tonsils;
• the appearance of swelling on the neck;
• easy change of voice.
Sometimes the first signs of throat cancer are ulcers or white spots in the mouth. But sometimes even such symptoms are absent. The obvious symptoms, which are already clearly visible, are already neglected by a few: at this stage, the ailment greatly disturbs the patient.
• Cutting severe pains appear in the throat, ear, and sometimes on the temples or cheeks.
• A continuous painful cough appears.
• General weakness observed.
• Rapid weight loss is developing.
Treatment
What to do if throat cancer is detected ? The first signs of oncology, even its subsequent and third stages, are not a sentence at all. Tumors at these stages are still small, and metastases have not spread throughout the body. Usually, doctors prescribe a combination treatment: chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and if necessary, if the tumor is large, surgical removal of the tumor. One of the latest and so far experimental methods is targeted or targeted therapy. It is not yet used in all clinics, but treatment often gives quite good results. During treatment, it is important to eat right, although it is difficult: any treatment for throat cancer causes nausea, and sometimes makes swallowing impossible. In this case, you will have to resort to the help of a special probe. Timely treatment and proper nutrition significantly accelerate the healing process from a terrible ailment.