What are the main warning signs of esophageal cancer in the early stage?

In recent years, the incidence of cancer has become higher and higher, and all kinds of strange cancers have gradually found people, and most cancers will send certain signals to the human body at the beginning, but many people do not know. Esophageal cancer is one of the high-incidence cancers, which is extremely harmful to the human body, so what are the warning signs of esophageal cancer to the human body in the early stage?

In the early stage of esophageal cancer, the patient's symptoms are not too severe because the extent of the lesion is relatively small, but there will be a small area of esophageal mucosal congestion, swelling and erosion in the esophagus, and ulcers and some small plaques may appear on the surface of the esophagus. If the condition of esophageal cancer is more serious, it is likely that they will feel that their throat is choked, which is very uncomfortable. If a patient with esophageal cancer only eats some liquid food or something soft, it will not be able to feel it, but only if it is hard and not chewed completely.

Patients with esophageal cancer may feel a foreign body in their esophagus when swallowing at an early stage, and many patients will feel that they have eaten or that their esophagus has been injured at the beginning. There is a feeling of a foreign body in the test tube, especially like a grain of rice or a vegetable leaf attached to the esophagus, and the feeling of being unable to swallow and spit it out, and there is no pain. In fact, this feeling of foreign body has nothing to do with the patient's usual eating, even if he does not eat, this foreign body sensation will always exist, because this foreign body sensation is the place of the tumor lesion of esophageal cancer.

The esophagus is very close to our activities, so in the early stage of esophageal cancer, patients often feel that they are not pushing things smoothly, and there will be slight pain, and the throat will be very dry and tight, especially when the patient eats dry food, the throat can be very obviously felt particularly dry. When patients find that they have these early symptoms, they must go to the hospital for examination in time, which may be early warning signs of esophageal cancer.

The early signs of esophageal cancer mainly include choking, pain, chest discomfort, gastroesophageal reflux, acid reflux, belching and other symptoms. Early esophageal cancer is actually not easy to find, but it may be seen more clearly under endoscopy, and there are still some signals of early esophageal cancer. The first frequent occurrence of eating is a choking sensation.

The second one may be a painful sensation, eating something like drinking, eating something hot, it may be painful, which is similar to esophagitis. The third one may have a chest discomfort, not necessarily something in particular, such as pain, but it is a chest discomfort. The fourth possible cause is a symptom like gastroesophageal reflux, which may have a reflux symptom, including some belching.

There are many of them, and in the early stage, there will be a feeling of pain in the throat when eating, there will be pain in the sternum, loss of appetite, weight loss, and indigestion.

Esophageal cancer is a type of cancer with a relatively high incidence in recent yearsThere will be some precursors

1. What are the precursors of esophageal cancer?

2. How to prevent esophageal cancer?

Esophageal cancer also has precursors, feeling that there is always a foreign body in the throat, not being able to cough up, not being able to swallow, swallowing discomfort when eating, and accompanied by pain, usually tight throat, dry mouth, and drinking water can not be solved, these are all precursors of esophageal cancer.

Yes; When eating, I feel choked when swallowing, hoarseness, chest tightness, slight pain in the sternum, and feeling that there are obstacles in the esophagus, etc., these are all precursors of esophageal cancer, and we should go to the hospital for gastroscopy screening in time.

Yes It is difficult to eat, and it is difficult to swallow some food, and eating some hard food will cause a sore throat and frequent throat inflammation.

Yes; There will be a decrease in appetite, thinness, lack of appetite, poor sleep, sore throat, poor swallowing, and headaches.

Disease analysis: precursor to esophageal cancer:

1.Hard choking, pain, retrosternal swelling and discomfort, and a foreign body sensation in the esophagus when swallowing food are the first signs of esophageal cancer.

2.The precursor of esophageal cancer is still hundred, and now the feeling of choking when swallowing food is the most common symptom. Some patients can even clearly recall when it first happened.

These symptoms can disappear spontaneously without **, reappear after a few days or months, and gradually increase in the frequency and degree of choking.

3.Retrosternal pain and pain in the esophagus when swallowing are also common. Pain behind the sternum or esophagus when eating, with a burning, pins and needles sensation, pulling sensation or rubbing sensation.

The pain is worse when you swallow rough or hot food in large gulps, and less painful when you swallow thin or warm food in small bites. The area of pain is usually higher than the actual area of cancer. For lower esophageal cancer, pain can occur in the upper abdomen.

The pain may be relieved after a few days or after taking medication**. Pain recurs when eating inappropriately or mood swings, and understanding the precursors of esophageal cancer can lead to esophageal cancer**.

4.Patients with foreign body sensation in the esophagus feel that the food they eat at one time is rough and hard and cuts the esophagus, and some food adheres to the wall of the esophagus and cannot be swallowed.

5.The patient does not feel as happy as before when the food passes through the esophagus, and the food travels slowly or even stays in one place, which is a sign of esophageal cancer.

6.A feeling of dryness and tightness in the throat, which can be accompanied by mild pain, is a precursor to esophageal cancer.

7.Patients with a feeling of fullness behind the sternum often cannot describe this sensation specifically, and only that the discomfort of chest tightness is often a precursor to esophageal cancer.

Understanding the precursors of esophageal cancer has a certain basis for preventing esophageal cancer.

What are the diagnostic criteria for esophageal cancer Esophageal cancer evolves gradually, and it takes several years for precancerous lesions of the esophageal epithelium to develop into cancer, and then about 1 year for it to develop from early-stage cancer to intermediate and advanced cancer. Because the symptoms of early esophageal cancer have no obvious cancerous symptoms, most of them are dysphagia, and they are easy to be despised by patients, so most of the patients with esophageal cancer are already in the middle and advanced stages when they are diagnosed, and the 5-year survival rate after surgery** has been hovering between 25% and 30%. The five-year survival rate of early surgery can reach 80-90%, and how to improve the diagnosis rate of early esophageal cancer and improve the efficacy of middle and advanced esophageal cancer, that is, secondary prevention, has become the main direction of clinical and basic research.

With the development of Western medical diagnostic technology, the diagnosis methods of esophageal cancer are also developing. At the same time, the addition of traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic standards not only helps to improve the early diagnosis rate of esophageal cancer, but also provides guidance for the reasonable and effective integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for esophageal cancer.

1. Diagnosis methods of upper esophageal cancer in Western medicine.

1.Symptoms: Early esophageal cancer has a choking sensation after swallowing food, a pinprick pain in the retrosternal bone or a foreign body sensation in the esophagus, and the typical symptoms are progressive dysphagia.

2.No signs in the early stage, and emaciation and dehydration in the late stage.

3.Esophageal barium swallow x-ray: esophageal mucosal destruction, lumen narrowing, niche, and filling defects may be seen.

4.Esophageal exfoliated cell test: the early positive rate can reach 90%.

5.Esophagoscopy: luminal narrowing and mucosal destruction may be seen.

6.Fiberoptic esophagoscopy has been widely used in the diagnosis of esophageal cancer.

Esophagoscopy, combined with exfoliative cytology, is an ideal diagnostic method for esophageal cancer. In the early stage of esophageal cancer, most of them are asymptomatic, the patient rate is low, and there are often no positive findings on x2-ray examination, and the missed diagnosis rate is high, while endoscopy has become the main means to complete early diagnosis because of the histological and cytological evidence obtained by biopsy and brush examination of flat lesions under direct vision. Hope it helps.

1 Clinical diagnosis.

Based on clinical symptoms, signs, and imaging tests, the diagnosis is clinical if one of the following is present.

a) Choking, foreign body sensation, retrosternal pain or obvious dysphagia when swallowing food, limited thickening of the esophageal mucosa, local wall stiffness, filling defect or niche opacity on esophagography.

b) Choking, foreign body sensation, retrosternal pain or significant dysphagia when swallowing food, annular thickening or irregular thickening of the esophageal tube wall on chest CT examination.

Clinical diagnosis of esophageal cancer cases requires pathological examination to confirm the diagnosis.

2. Pathological diagnosis.

Esophageal cancer can be diagnosed by cytology or histopathological examination based on clinical symptoms, signs and imaging examinations, and if one of the following conditions is met.

a) Fiber esophagoscopy with positive brush cytology or biopsy.

b) Those who have a clinical diagnosis of esophageal cancer, and the diagnosis of extraesophageal lesions (supraclavicular lymph nodes, ** nodules) is confirmed by biopsy or cytology.

There are many similar diseases to esophageal cancer, such as esophageal polyps, esophageal ulcers, pharyngitis, benign tumors, etc., all of which are as difficult to eat and swallow as esophageal cancer, so don't worry, you can overcome all diseases in your heart, and your family should give encouragement to your loved ones. A good man has a safe life. Heaven will bless your family.

Things won't be so bad, there will be miracles where there is hope.

First, there are often discomfort reactions such as gastrointestinal discomfort, pain, and bloating. Second, frequent constipation, blood in the stool, and less frequent bowel movements. Thirdly, lack of energy and severe insomnia.

Indigestion, what I eat stays in the stomach, there is stuffiness in the chest, I often feel that I can't breathe, my intestines have a choking feeling, my face is sallow, and my body is uncomfortable.

1. Choking. When eating food, patients often feel that the food passes through the esophagus very slowly, and even there is a sense of stagnation. 2. There is a foreign body sensation in the throat.

I always have a foreign body sensation in my throat, I can't cough it out or swallow it, and I always feel like there is a foreign body. 3. Feeling of fullness. Patients may clearly feel a feeling of discomfort behind the sternum.

There are generally a few early symptoms of esophageal cancer. Clause.

First, it is a foreign body sensation behind the sternum, when the esophagus has a tumor lesion in the early stage, you will feel that there is a mass or a foreign body behind the sternum, or an uncomfortable feeling. Clause.

2. Retrosternal pain, at this time, in fact, esophageal cancer is gradually eroding or invading the surrounding mucosa or the underlying muscles and nerves, which will produce corresponding symptoms. Clause.

3. There is also a major early symptom of chest swallowing discomfort, that is, when swallowing something, I feel a little uncomfortable, and patients often mistakenly think that it may be inflammation of the pharynx, but in fact it may be that the esophagus has become cancerous. Clause.

Fourth, there is also a dull and dull pain behind the sternum. Generally speaking, it is mainly these four, the first.

1. Retrosternal foreign body sensation. Clause.

2. Retrosternal pain. Clause.

3. Vague pain in the chest. Clause.

Fourth, the discomfort of swallowing.