10 laryngeal cancer are smokers, nine
May 9 comic dialogue masters, with Jiang Kun Li Wenhua partner for many years and its long suffering from throat cancer with chronic pulmonary heart disease (pulmonary heart disease) treatment ineffective, in Beijing. Li Wenhua was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1983, 1985, a total laryngectomy the implementation, operation and very good friend for 40 years after the tobacco and cut off relations completely.
10 laryngeal nine were smokers
Laryngeal cancer diagnosed at the age of 40 years of age, more common among men than women. Over ninety percent of laryngeal cancer patients have long-term smoking history, general history of smoking more than 20 years, male to female ratio of 10:1, the incidence of laryngeal cancer and the amount of daily smoking and smoking in the total time proportional. It has been confirmed, the tobacco produced by combustion of tobacco tar has carcinogenic effects in pyrene. Tobacco can make mucosal hyperemia, edema, epithelial hyperplasia and squamous metaplasia, ciliary movement to stop and slow, a cancer foundation. In addition, heavy smokers and drinkers, the risk of suffering from throat cancer will be significantly increased, both showed a synergistic effect.
Early symptoms of laryngeal cancer should be careful
Early symptoms of laryngeal cancer, obscured, and some showed only pharyngeal foreign body sensation, hoarseness, easily mistaken for a cold, pharyngitis, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases, can be easily overlooked. Then,
How does early detection of laryngeal cancer?
Hoarseness
This is the first symptom of throat cancer, early feeling of vocal fatigue, hoarseness persisted then, and gradually increased, the degree of hoarse serious than chronic laryngitis.
Throat paresthesia
Foreign body sensation in the throat occurs, such as a sense of urgency or swallowing discomfort, these symptoms are supraglottic carcinoma of the initial symptoms. This type of early symptoms of the disease is not obvious, because of more subtle lesions are often difficult to find. Therefore, the middle-aged patients with throat discomfort comprehensive and careful examination should be done, must not order only by the throat paraesthesia or chronic angina and other hastily, lest bungled diagnosis.
Cough and hemoptysis
Mostly irritating cough cough, bloody sputum when the sputum. After the tumor will increase the emission of tracheal secretions poor, often lead to respiratory infections.
Reflective pain
Tumor ulceration, inflammation or ulceration or during the merger Perichondritis throat, the pain can cause reflex, showing the ipsilateral headache, earache. Such symptoms occurred mainly in patients with supraglottic cancer.
Neck mass
Often in the back of the neck mass in the mandibular angle, the patient often has no symptoms, anti-mass in the neck to the clinics, the pattern was supraglottic, and other obvious symptoms, but the transfer earlier.
Above is possible some of the early laryngeal manifestations. For early detection of laryngeal cancer, who have unexplained hoarseness or throat foreign body sensation, the normal symptoms not improve after conservative treatment, especially over 40 years of age, a hoarse voice for more than 2 weeks should be a detailed jets endoscopy to early detection of laryngeal cancer to diagnosis.
LIU Jiang-feng Zhao Council