Oropharyngeal cancer

 

Throat Cancer      or   Oropharyngeal cancer

Early detection and rapid treatment will assist in the healing of cancer of the larynx 

Throat is a member to speak in the human body 

It is located at the top of the neck and the length of about 5 cm and width about 5 cm. 

Located between the pharynx on the top and bottom of the trachea before the beginning of the esophagus. 

It consists of cartilage, muscle and called Adam's apple and the muscles inside covered with mucous membrane of the muscle and two white are "vocal cords". 

The larynx is divided into three sections: 

the vocal cords. 

above the vocal cords connected Balbelaom. 

under the vocal cords connected to the windpipe. 

Job Throat 

Play an important role in speech and breathing, coughing and swallowing, a custodian, which prevent the entry of food and water to the trachea by closing the door of the larynx during swallowing and open during breathing and speaking. 

What is cancer? 

Cancer is the building of new cells in a particular region of the human body without the goal of doing and this does not stop breeding and get to a point where the start damaging healthy tissue, usually these cells die, but in the beginnings of cancer cells do not die and start taking the place of healthy tissue and destroy it and start cancer. 

Tumors are divided into two parts: 

Polyps: rarely has an impact on human life, causing death usually still easily due to the nature of the former member with little impact. 

Malignant tumors: It is a dangerous habit and affect human life and can be removed and treated if detected in early stages and the survival rate of up to 95%, but if left uncovered in the final stages Vtkon Low cure rate may need to remove the patient's throat, and sometimes part of the neck muscles . 

It suffers from cancer of the larynx: 

No one knows what is the cause of the cancer. Doctors can not explain injury to a person with cancer and non-wounding another, a disease is not contagious. 

But there are factors that help and found the study, statistics and these factors increase the incidence of cancer, namely: 

Age: typically more than 55 years. 

Sex: four times more in males than in females. 

Smoking: the proportion of occurrence in smokers much more than it occurs in non-smokers, the most as well as in smokers who drank alcoholic beverages, as well as lung cancer and pharynx, tongue, pancreas and urinary bladder. 

Alcohol: The more the amount of drink increased the proportion of cancer. 

a cancer in the vicinity. 

Action: sulfuric acid, nickel and asbestos. 

Symptoms 

Depends on the size and location of the tumor and this includes: 

hoarseness or a change in the sound. 

a tumor in the neck. 

a sense that there is something strange in the throat or a bit does not swallow. 

coughing did not address or loosen with the medicine. 

a sense of suffocation, especially at night. 

bad breath. 

Alma permission. 

sudden weight loss without diet and work is not justified because of another. 

These symptoms are not only for cancer of the larynx, but for several other serious illnesses, the doctor is the only one who can distinguish that. 

Diagnosis 

Diagnosis has become much easier with the advancement of diagnostic tools, with an endoscopy of the larynx and upper respiratory tract, the doctor can give an accurate diagnosis very patient without the patient enters a hospital, but may need hospital if the patient felt the doctor should be to undertake a sample taken under general anesthetic to determine the quality of tumor located. 

Class cross-sectional images may require a doctor to explain the extension of the tumor and its size. 

Blood tests to indicate the status of the patient's general health 

After entering the hospital two days later the outcome of the sample and determined if they are sound and, God willing, or require the patient to move to the next phase of treatment. 

Questions of the patient 

The type of sample and where? 

What does it cost? 

How long does the process? 

How long is the result? 

What if a cancer is the means of treatment? 

Are there any options for treatment? 

Are there other tests should be conducted? 

These questions are a sample of the questions posed to the doctor usually when there is cancer patient's throat. 

Treatment 

Patients themselves should have the right to decide what treatment they are part of it so you need to know the patient himself and not the parents (unless there was a reason my mind) all the details and risks of treatment, duration and pain and problems and their consequences, and so the patient can do the following: 

prepare a list of written questions to the doctor. 

Write responses questions. 

Registration of the meeting that allowed the doctor to do so. 

The presence of one or more of family members, especially from the medical field, if any. 

Give the final decision is much better after taking a second medical opinion. 

Treatments 

Nuclear and radiation therapy alone. 

Radiotherapy with surgery. 

Radiation therapy with chemotherapy. 

Healing 

Cancer of the larynx of the most curable cancers, rate, as can sometimes be 95% if the patient see at the beginning of the proceedings it was quickly and it continued patient care and perseverance, and may be less depending on the situation and the size and type, location and extent of proliferation. 

And patients should take care of themselves and not ignore symptoms of the disease and review of the trust of their doctors for a thorough diagnosis of the symptoms of their illness.