Nasal Cancer

Health Effects

Sinonasal cancer is known to occur in many occupational groups, including carpenters and joiners, wheelwrights and wainwrights, wood machinists, sawmill, forestry, and timber workers, boat pattern makers, woodcarvers, and makers of wooden shoes, vats and boards.

Nasal and paranasal cancers may cause:

• blockages causing stuffiness in one side of your nose that does not go away
• nosebleeds
• decreased sense of smell
• mucus coming from the nose that can be bloody
• mucus draining into the back of your nose and throat

People with nasal and paranasal sinus cancer may also notice:

• bulging of one eye
• complete or partial loss of sight
• double vision
• pain above or below the eye
• a watery eye with tears running down the cheek
• swelling of the tissue that covers the white of the eye (conjunctiva)

Other symptoms

• a lump or growth anywhere on the face, nose or roof of the mouth that does not go away
• pain or numbness and tingling in parts of your face, particularly the upper cheek, that doesn’t go away
• a headache
• loose teeth
• difficulty opening your mouth
• swollen lymph nodes in your neck
• pain or pressure in one of your ears