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Oropharyngeal cancer - Coggle Diagram
Oropharyngeal cancer
Care plan
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Teach the importance of activity, turning, coughing, and deep breathing.
Maintain semi-fowlers position. Encourage to turn.,cough, and deep breath every 2 to 4 hours.
Provide emotional support, self care and participation in decision making
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Diagnose
White patch-exclude other diagnosis clinical diagnoses (lueko/erythroplakia), biopsy-malignancy dia9
Normal-hyperkeratosis-dysplasia-carcinoma in situ( before basal layer), carcinoma ln
Treatment
Surgery, especially when the tumor is small and has not spread to the lymph nodes.radiotherapy and may be used after surgery to destroy any remaining cancer cells and reduce the rate of recurrence. 6
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