What are the symptoms of head and neck cancer?
Most common sites affected by the head and neck cancer includes: throat, nose and ears and its symptoms may depend on where the cancer develops and how it spreads. For example, mouth cancer may lead to jaw swelling or sores in mouth, while tumors in the pharynx or larynx can be seen as throat lumps.
Apart from physical signs, head and neck cancer may lead to headaches, cold, cough or sore throat, ear pain, etc.
Here are a few common symptoms of head and neck cancer tumors:
- Hearing issue or pain in ear
- Consistent sore throat
- Headaches
- Breathing congestion
- Regular cough
- Frequent bleeding from nose
- White or red patches in the mouth
- Lumps in throat, neck or nose
- Difficulty in swallowing
- Unexplained weight loss
- Bad breath
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