Pharyngeal Cancers

Painful Swallowing + Ear Pain + Hoarseness = Pharyngeal Cancer

Risk Factors: smoking (tobacco, marijuana, cigars),  UV lights, EtOH, Betel nut chewing, HPV, EBV

Presenting Symptoms

• lump in throat
• persistent sore throat
• cough, bloody sputum
• hoarseness
• dysphagia
• lymphadenopathy
• ear pain (referred)

Nasopharynx Cancer

more common in African and East Asian populations,  ay cause paresis of soft palate and nasal regurgitation on swallowing

Laryngeal Cancer: stridor