THROAT CANCER-SYMPTOMS,CAUSES,TREATMENTS&PREVENTION

This post was most recently updated on July 25th, 2023

Overview:-

Throat cancer is nothing but cancerous tumors which that develops into your throat area especially in tonsils, pharynx, and larynx.

The human throat is specially made up with a muscular tube and is long about our length of hand(from palm to elbow).

Its length begins from the end of the nose of behind part to the neck. Actually, cancer is a growth of unusual cells.

That’s why tumors on the throat will be flat in nature and get enlarged from the pharynx. This tumor will also touch larynx by increasing day by day and tonsils will also be affected by the tumors.

Larynx(also called the voice box of a human being) helps on producing a vibration when we speak up or talk to anyone.

This voice box will fail to create a proper vibration after throat cancer, and our voice may be unclear and people to whom we are talking to couldn’t understand properly what we are saying.

This cancer also affects our tonsils and epiglottis. In this way, we may feel difficulty in breathing as epiglottis helps our respiratory pipe to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.

What are the symptoms of throat cancer?

Symptoms that are credited for throat cancer are as follows:-

1. Your voice may be changed drastically like hoarseness, unclear voice, and cracking.
2. Coughing for several days.
3. The patient would feel difficulty in breathing.
4. Blood may be seen on your cough while coughing.
5. Sometimes the patient vomits the blood.
6. Feeling difficulty in swallowing foods and liquids.
7. There would be a slight pain on your hearing organ (that is an ear).
8. Irritation on the throat or symptoms of pharyngitis may be seen.
9. Losing interest on daily basis foods such as carbohydrate and protein enriched foods.
10. Being suffered from sore throat repeatedly and having less chance of healing.
11. Loss of weight could be also one of the symptoms of throat cancer.
12. Headache for a long time as like migraine.

What are the causes of throat cancer?

We will not be the victim of any disease until we have done mistake on our healthy lifestyle. So, there are obviously some causes of throat cancer. Some causes may include:-

1. Having a portion of foods that are more salty and oily on contents.
2. Showing interest in junk foods and eating those type of foods on a daily basis is one of the main causes of throat cancer.
3. Although cancer is a non-contagious disease, almost all types of cancers have the beginning stage and the beginning stage could be sometimes of communicable disease such as Tuberculosis. And those type of communicable disease can be genetically transmitted from one generation to another generation. In this way, throat cancer can be transmitted from one generation to another generation.
4. The habit of taking somehow burnt foods such as corn will lead you to have throat cancer. Because normally burnt substances contain carbon in it, and carbon participates directly into the reaction with the juice that is secreted by our gland and this will obviously produce a tumor.
5. Chewing tobacco is injurious to health and also the main cause of throat cancer.
6. Consumption of alcohol.
7. Living in an area of radiative ray such as CT-Scan, X-Ray, MRI, and so on.
8. Having less exercise make you obese and obesity increases the level of fat on your body. And ultimately, there would be a high chance of having cancer.
9. As dehydration often deprive you to live a healthy life, it can also be the cause of this disease.

Preventive Measures

1. Stop and quick smoking. If you are not a smoker, it’s better to not start at any time because it may lead you to cancer.
2. Control the level of alcohol. If possible, drink it occasionally, but not regularly.
3. Start dieting. If you are doing it already, then carry on for a lifetime.
4. Never get too much obese.
5. Say goodbye to the burnt and messed foods.
6. Have a regular medical checkup once in a half of every year.
7. According to the latest study in the USA, there could be a chance of having cancer due to of insecure sexual contact. The virus called Human Papilloma Virus(HPV) will cause an infection on your body and this virus will help to get enlarged of organs. In this way, cells will grow in a quicker way. That’s why protecting yourself from such type of virus is one of the mandatory steps to be saved from throat cancer.

Treatments of throat cancer:-

At first, you need to consult with a doctor after having an appointment. Then the doctor will process as their regular process of treatment. Some treatments process may include:-

For the better recognition of throat cancer, the physician will do the following test:

1. X-ray.
2. ECG.
3. Video X-ray.
4. CT-Scan.
5. Biopsy Test.
6. MRI.

Treatment Method:-

There are no medicines of cancer except chemotherapy and radiotherapy. If the result shows that the patient has got cancer, the physician will process to chemotherapy, radiation and at last operation.

The major operation can be done before chemotherapy and radiotherapy by analyzing the situation of the patient.

If the tumor is often enlarged and can’t cut down unless turning its size to a small, then the physician will give a dose of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, first. But if the tumor is comparatively small, the physician will cut down the tumor and they will provide a dose of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, later on.