What is the difference between pharyngitis and laryngeal cancer?

Mr.King was recently troubled by "pharyngitis", long-term throat pain, foreign body sensation, and dryness. After a series of investigations, it was found that Mr. King's disease was not simple pharyngitis, but a frightening laryngeal cancer.

In his grief, Mr. King kept saying with his medical records, "I checked online that my symptoms are simple pharyngitis!" While sympathizing with Mr. King, I explained to him helplessly that many symptoms are indeed similar.

What is the difference between pharyngitis and laryngeal cancer?

I. Pharyngitis Pharyngitis

The first is a tissue inflammation, usually caused by a viral infection or bacterial infection, generally divided into acute pharyngitis and chronic pharyngitis or also strophic pharyngitis, of which acute pharyngitis may also cause acute rhinitis with the opposite is strophic pharyngitis generally caused by the spread of strophic rhinitis, I'll break it down below.

⒈ acute pharyngitis

This type of patient generally has a rapid onset, the patient will generally feel the initial pharynx burning, and itching, further to the pharynx pain, swallowing will have a sense of obstruction, serious, may also lead to pain in the ear, more serious may also be accompanied by the whole body discomfort reactions such as fever, easy to feel cold, head pain symptoms and other physical conditions, depending on the individual differences The symptoms may vary depending on the individual.

Chronic pharyngitis

Patients suffering from this disease will appear often a dry throat, and wake up in the morning there will be irritating pain, also accompanied by an itchy throat, and foreign body feeling obstruction, as well as brushing teeth will cause vomiting feeling, pharyngeal secretions, and not easy to discharge, and more stubborn, more difficult to eliminate the root cause of the disease, but the systemic symptoms caused by not very obvious.

Strophic pharyngitis

This condition is one of the more serious types of pharyngitis, and patients generally have a sense of discomfort in the throat, as well as a sense of dryness, and in severe cases, they can even cough up dry scabs. And this disease is not easy to cure and the disease process is long

II. Laryngeal cancer

Next, let's look at laryngeal cancer. Firstly, laryngeal cancer is a kind of malignant tumor, which is generally divided into three types: supranational laryngeal cancer, glottis laryngeal cancer, and subletting laryngeal cancer.

The most common type of laryngeal cancer is supra glottis laryngeal cancer, which usually occurs in the vocal cords, specifically in a small area above and below the vocal cords, and will cause hoarseness, which is easier to detect in the early stage, so the treatment effect of patients, in this case, is generally better, usually accompanied by hoarseness and foreign body sensation in the larynx, coughing, etc. It is also easier to confuse with pharyngitis, which is the case of Mr. King.

Thus, by comparing the above, we can find that the difference between laryngeal cancer and pharyngitis is first that laryngeal cancer is a malignant tumor but pharyngitis is a tissue inflammation, and there are many differences in some forms of manifestation. Then let's see what are the major differences in their treatment methods.

III. What is the difference between pharyngitis and laryngeal cancer treatment?

⒈ pharyngitis treatment

①Usually in this case, patients need to drink more water, use foods that are easy to digest, and keep the stool normal and fluent.

② Exercise diligently develops correct and good habits of work and rest promote metabolism, accelerates blood circulation, enhances personal fitness, and strengthens immunity.

③Create good living habits, change bad habits such as smoking and alcoholism, etc.

④Keep the living environment clean, make the air as little dust as possible, make the air in humid and comfortable condition, and reduce the inhalation of dust and smoke.

⑤ Also need to treat primary diseases to avoid pharyngitis caused by other diseases, such as rhinitis, bronchitis, and other chronic respiratory diseases, to reduce the causes

⑥If there is a fever, easy-to-feel cold, head pain, and other physical conditions, physical cooling, and drug cooling measures can be taken to reduce fever, patients need to be constantly concerned about the body temperature, keep breathing smooth, the environment is small dust, if it still does not improve, if necessary, you can breathe oxygen, pay attention to maintain the balance of nutrients in the patient's body.

Treatment of peal laryngeal cancer

Because the specific conditions of patients are different, the treatment plans are different. The specific conditions will depend on the development of patients and the differences in their conditions, but the main treatment methods include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and biological hypnotherapy.

①Early stage laryngeal cancer

If patients with early-stage laryngeal cancer are treated with endoscopic surgery or radiation therapy, it is likely to be cured, but the patient's condition should be closely monitored to see if there is a possibility of recurrence, and if there is a recurrence, then surgery or radiation therapy can be performed according to the condition. In general, it can be treated by endoscopic or open partial laryngeal alone, which may improve the situation and preserve the function of the larynx. Supranational laryngeal cancer and glottis laryngeal cancer are also different in treatment from the former in that they are prone to lymph node metastasis in the neck and can be treated by lymph node dissection according to the lymph nodes in the neck.

②Late stage laryngeal cancer

Patients with advanced laryngeal cancer usually choose surgery or surgery plus radiotherapy, depending on their health condition and according to medical prescription.

There are several kinds of surgical treatments, such as endoscopic minimally invasive surgery, partial laryngeal, and total laryngeal. The first two of them can still be vocalized, but the last one cannot communicate normally and is considered to be rehabilitated by learning another way to speak. Besides, there are many other treatments such as radiation therapy, Chinese medicine, chemotherapy, and other methods.

If laryngeal cancer is detected early and diagnosed early, doctors will usually recommend surgery. In addition, early-stage laryngeal cancer patients can also choose radiation therapy, which kills cancer cells in the larynx through high-energy radiation in radiation therapy, and chemotherapy can be added at the same time to reduce the possibility of recurrence.

IV. Causal factors

Pharyngitis viral infection, bacterial infection, environmental factors, various nasal diseases and chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract, excessive smoking, and alcohol, dust, spicy food, harmful gas or allergen stimulation, anemia, indigestion, pharyngeal reflex, chronic inflammation of the lower respiratory tract, cardiovascular disease, endocrine dysfunction, vitamin deficiency, and immune function can become the causative factors of pharyngitis the pathology of the disease factors are not particularly specific. The pathological factors are not particularly specific, but in any case, we should stay away from bad habits.

Excessive smoking, alcoholism, environmental pollution, occupational chemical irritation, viral infection, and other seemingly trivial behaviors or effects can eventually lead to laryngeal cancer, in fact, the disease factors of laryngeal cancer

From the perspective of pathology, they are two completely different diseases, pharyngitis is an inflammation of the tissue system while laryngeal cancer is a malignant tumor, and from the perspective of treatment methods and causative factors, they belong to two different treatment systems.

So how to prevent laryngeal cancer when there are so many pathogenic factors?

As mentioned above, the specific pathogenic factors of laryngeal cancer are not clear in terms of pathology, so we should stay away from bad habits, first and foremost, quit smoking and drinking, then treat some diseases that may cause lesions, and finally, avoid second-hand smoke inhalation, air pollution, and environmental pollution.