Prolife Cancer Centre – Throat Cancer Treatment in Pune

The specialist will inspect your mouth, throat, ears. He will use a tiny lighted mirror to check your pharynx. The doctor will pass a tiny bendable tube with a light at the end (flexible endoscope) into the nostril to look at the back of the nose. A local anesthetic spray might be used to numb your nose and throat. You will be instructed not to eat or drink anything for an hour afterwards, or until your throat is no longer numb.

If a tumor is assumed, the doctor will take a biopsy and a pathologist will examine the tissue under a microscope.

The doctor may also order other tests:

There are 5 stages of Throat cancer. It is divided from range 0 to 4:

Stage 0

The tumor is only on the top layer of cells of the affected part of the throat.

Stage I:

The tumor is less than 2 cm and limited to the part of the throat where it started.

Stage II: 

The tumor is between 2 and 4 cm or may have grown into a nearby area.

Stage III:

The tumor is larger than 4 cm or has grown into other structures in the throat or has spread to one lymph node.

Stage IV:

The tumor has spread to the lymph nodes or distant organs.

Your throat cancer treatment at Prolife may include one or more of the following therapies:

1. Surgery

In most cases, surgery is only needed if the tumor reappears after chemoradiation treatment.

If the tumor is minute, the surgeon can perform transoral laser microsurgery. The patient is given anesthesia before the operation begins. The laser is injected into the mouth and the beam from the laser is used to excise the tumor. Dr. Sumit Shah provides the best Laparoscopic Surgery in Pune.

2. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is prescribed for different reasons. Together with radiotherapy as an alternative to surgery (called chemoradiation). After surgery to decrease the risk of the cancer returning or to slow the growth of a tumor and control symptoms when the cancer cannot be cured (palliative treatment).

3. Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy, including intensity modulated radiation therapy, stops cancer cells from dividing and slows the growth of the tumor. Radiotherapy also destroys cancer cells and can shrink or eliminate tumors. Radiation therapy involves 5-6 weeks of daily treatments.

Healing from Surgery

Most people who have throat cancer surgery heal without any problems. These people go home within a week. A fewer number of patients may have a slower recovery and need to wait for a little more.

A surgeon will give you guidance on how to take care of yourself, including your surgery, bathing, driving, and sexual activity. There will be information about yourself:

After Treatment, you will be given a Daily Goals Checklist. Use that checklist to understand how you are doing every day.

While you are in the hospital, you will have regular aims to help you recover. These aims include:

After you’ve completed your treatments for Pharynx cancer, follow-up care is very essential. Routine checkups can help find any changes in your health, and if cancer comes back (or “recurs”), it can be treated as soon as possible.

If your treatment has finished, follow-up appointments maybe every 3−6 months for the first couple of years and 6−12 months for the following 3 years.

Cancers of the lip and oral cavity, larynx, oropharynx, hypopharynx, and salivary glands are the 16th, 21st, 24th, 25th and 28th most common cancers worldwide, respectively. The top 25 countries with the highest rates of these cancers in 2018 are given in the tables below.

Combined, these cancers make up mouth, pharynx and larynx (MPL) cancers, and there were over 750,000 new cases of these in 2018.

This year, an estimated 53,000 adults (38,140 men and 14,860 women) diagnosed with oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Rates of these cancers are more than twice as high in men as in women. … It is estimated that 10,860 deaths (7,970 men and 2,890 women) from these 2 diseases will occur this year.

At Prolife Cancer Center, your throat cancer treatment is personalized to give the best results, while concentrating on your quality of life. We offer minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries that provide successful treatment with less impact on you.

Prolife offers unique options. Our globally renowned team of physicians shows your treatment for the most benefit while reducing the impact on your body.

Dr. Sumit Shah is expertise in treating pharynx cancer. We offer the best Laparoscopic surgery treatment for pharynx cancer also chemotherapy and radiation therapy options.