Does chronic pharyngitis turn into cancer?

Dr. Jordan Davis
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2025-05-02 07:26:49
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Chronic pharyngitis is not a cancer needs to be analyzed according to specific circumstances.
Chronic pharyngitis is a chronic inflammation of the pharynx mucosa, submucosa and lymphatic tissue. Active treatment, under normal circumstances, generally will not develop into cancer. But if chronic pharyngitis patients do not cooperate with treatment, while long-term smoking and alcohol abuse may lead to vocal cord mucosa atypical hyperplasia, vocal cord leukoplakia and other precancerous lesions, thus developing into laryngeal cancer
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