To answer these questions your doctor will need to do the following things:
talk with you about your medical history. This includes signs you may have noticed, any other health conditions, medications that you are taking, and whether you smoke or drink alcohol
perform a physical examination by feeling and looking inside your throat and neck
order diagnostic tests, which may include scans.
Common tests include:
Your doctor will use a very thin flexible tube with a tiny light and camera on it to look inside your nose to see your nasopharynx.
This uses X-rays to take pictures of the inside of the body. If a person has cancer, a CT scan can help the doctor to see where it is, measure how big it is, and if it has spread into nearby organs or other parts of the body.
This uses magnetic fields to take pictures of the inside of the body. This helps your doctor see how far a cancer has grown into the tissue around it.
This is a whole body scan that uses a radioactive form of sugar which can show if nasopharyngeal cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body
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