What are the symptoms of early esophageal cancer?

a. Early symptoms of esophageal cancer.

There is no obvious dysphagia in the early stage of esophageal cancer, and the degree of symptoms is often mild and short, and its intermittent period is longer or shorter, often recurring, sometimes mild and sometimes severe, and there can be no symptoms during the intermittent period, which can last for 1-2 years, or even longer. The main symptoms are:

1) Mild choking sensation when eating, especially when eating hard food; (2) Retrosternal tingling, fullness, and discomfort when eating; (3) A feeling of a foreign body in the esophagus when the food is swallowed; (4) Stagnation after eating food; (5) Epigastric discomfort, hiccups, belching, etc. when eating.

b Symptoms of mid-to-late stage esophageal cancer.

1) Difficulty swallowing. Dysphagia is a typical symptom of esophageal cancer, and it is more pronounced when eating dry rice or solid foods, and it is also difficult to feel good when eating semi-liquid foods such as noodles and porridge. Due to the good elasticity of the esophageal wall, when dysphagia occurs, the tumor has often invaded the periphery of the esophagus2 3 or more, and is often accompanied by infiltration of surrounding tissues and lymphatic metastasis.

Dysphagia often progressively worsens, develops rapidly, and can lead to death within 1 year of the onset of obstructive symptoms** if not promptly**.

2) Obstruction. It refers to the complete inability to enter solid or semi-liquid food, and can only enter the liquid and is difficult to enter with severe water. Patients may have persistent mucus spitting due to the infiltration and inflammation of esophageal cancer that reflexively increases the secretion of esophageal and salivary glands.

3) Pain. There may be persistent pain in the retrosternal or dorsal interscapular region. Suggests severe invasion of cancer into surrounding tissues, mediastinum. It can also be caused by esophageal ulcers caused by cancer. Lower esophageal cancer can also cause epigastric pain.

4) Bleeding. The cancer may cause esophageal ulcers or invade blood vessels, and eventually rupture may cause massive bleeding, often with massive hemoptysis.

5) Hoarseness. It is caused by tumor invasion or metastasis of lymph compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

6) Weight loss and anorexia. Due to obstruction, the patient has a decrease in diet, low nutritional status, emaciation, dehydration, etc., and the patient has a significant weight loss. End-stage symptoms and complications:

Cachexia, dehydration, and exhaustion are caused by esophageal obstruction and systemic depletion, often accompanied by water and electrolyte imbalances. The tumor invades and penetrates the esophagus and involves the trachea, mediastinum, bronchi, hila, pericardium, and large blood vessels, causing mediastinitis, abscess, pneumonia, tracheoesophageal fistula, and massive bleeding. Widespread systemic metastases cause symptoms such as jaundice, ascites, dyspnea due to tracheal compression, vocal cord paralysis, and coma.

Don't blindly judge based on symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital for diagnosis to avoid unnecessary psychological pressure.

Cancer causes the patient to suffer during the development of the disease, and even in the end, the patient's life is eroded. If the disease can be detected early, early**, the disease can generally be better controlled. So, can esophageal cancer be detected at an early stage?

Be vigilant, these 5 abnormalities in the body may be esophageal cancer.

The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are as follows: Dr. Jin Chuan, director of the fourth department of internal medicine of Guangzhou Medical University Cancer Hospital, pointed out that the early clinical manifestations of esophageal cancer patients are hiccups, heat sensation, sternal stagnation, foreign body sensation, burning sensation, acid reflux, and belching. However, these are non-specific symptoms, and it is difficult to determine whether it is esophageal cancer based on these symptoms alone.

For example, GERD also has symptoms such as acid reflux, hiccups, and hiccups. Choking when swallowing food. Lesions often present as localized small esophageal mucosal congestion, swelling, erosions, superficial ulcers, and small plaque lesions.

Discomfort or difficulty in swallowing occurs when food passes by. That's why choking occurs when you swallow pancakes, dry molds, or other foods that don't break easily.

Chest pain, heart pain. Dr. Kanegawa advises patients that these symptoms are also mainly focused on diet, depending on the location of the esophageal lesion of the tumor, the pain is different, the most common is chest pain and pain in the socket, such as acupuncture, pulling rubbing, or burning. Be vigilant, the appearance of these 5 abnormalities in the body may be the feeling of chest tightness in esophageal cancerThe presence of the tumor will not only narrow the esophageal cavity, but sometimes compress the organs outside the esophagus, so that the patient has a feeling of chest tightness and tightness, and the symptoms will be more obvious when swallowing food.

The painful part of the body, under normal circumstances, tends to be slightly higher than the actual cancerous area. In the case of lower esophageal cancer, pain can occur in the upper abdomen. It is important to note that the patient's pain can often be relieved after a few days or after a simple medication**.

But when eating poorly or with mood swings, the pain can go further, and this condition is often repeated.

If you have a decrease in appetite, a foreign body sensation when swallowing food, a dry throat, chest tightness and shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, and a feeling of pressure in the chest cavity, you may have esophageal cancer. Because esophageal cancer can cause symptoms of these diseases, it can also cause indirect pain.

Discomfort in swallowing, very dry throat, a feeling of tightness, loss of appetite, abnormal pain in the sternum, hoarseness, frequent cough and malnutrition, and increasing emaciation. Because these symptoms are manifestations of esophageal cancer, these symptoms can tell us that we are not in good shape.

Discomfort in swallowing, weight loss, pain in the sternum, burning sensation, difficulty swallowing food, these are all segments, you may have esophageal cancer, because these symptoms occur after problems with the esophagus.

If the body has trouble swallowing, sleeping, headache, stomach ache after eating spicy food, unable to drink milk, and unable to drink cold water, then it means that you may have esophageal cancer.

Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive tract, and China is a high-incidence area of esophageal cancer. Zhang Wenpeng, a traditional Chinese medicine oncologist at Beijing Sihui West District Hospital, said that because esophageal cancer is directly related to eating, the early symptoms will still be obvious, but it is also easy to be ignored. What are the early symptoms of esophageal cancer?

Let's take a look.

1) Difficulty swallowing.

Dysphagia during meals is a relatively obvious symptom of esophageal cancer in the early stage, and it is also a sign that many people are the first to find esophageal cancer. Even if you chew carefully when eating, it is difficult to swallow, and even drinking porridge will be obstructive, and you will feel that you can't swallow it, and you feel that the food is blocked in your esophagus all the time. When this symptom appears, many people classify it as a throat disease such as laryngitis, so they ignore this and miss the best opportunity.

If you suddenly have difficulty swallowing while eating, and this symptom persists for a period of time, do not delay going to the hospital for examination.

2. Chest pain.

Chest pain is also an early symptom of esophageal cancer and can get worse when you eat or drink water. Esophageal cancer is a cancerous lesion in the esophagus, and when food flows through the cancerous lesion, it will cause pain and tightness in the chest due to peristalsis of the esophagus. Chest pain is also a symptom of many other diseases, so it is not typical and can be easily overlooked.

3. There is a foreign body sensation in swallowed food.

In addition to dysphagia, a foreign body sensation in swallowed food is actually an early symptom of esophageal cancer, especially when eating some dry and hard foods. Many people treat the foreign body sensation in the esophagus as a foreign body sensation in the throat, and treat esophageal cancer as a throat disease, which is naturally unruly and will not alleviate the symptoms. I hope that after understanding this, you will be able to think about esophageal cancer and be more purposeful when you go to the hospital for examination.

4. Discomfort in the upper abdomen.

When you have esophageal cancer, pain in the heart is also a major symptom, and at the same time, the upper abdomen feels very painful, and at the same time, there is a feeling of fullness whether you eat or not, in short, the symptoms are very obvious. Especially when eating dry and hard food, the discomfort in the upper abdomen can be unbearable.

Although esophageal cancer can also bring a lot of uncomfortable symptoms to people, most of these uncomfortable symptoms are not typical, that is to say, it will not make people think that they have esophageal cancer, so it is easy to be ignored and delay the best time. Here, Zhang Wenpeng, a traditional Chinese medicine oncologist from Beijing Sihui West District Hospital, said that after reading this article, everyone can have a preliminary understanding and understanding in their hearts, and when this symptom appears, they can consider the direction of esophageal cancer in time and be foolproof.

Loss of appetite, pain in speaking, difficulty in vocal cord articulation, inability to swallow food, and inability to eat; Seek medical attention in a timely manner, seek professional help, learn some tips, look up tips online, and do some tests yourself.

Sometimes you have a dry cough, you cough up blood, sometimes you have difficulty swallowing, you have pain, and you have a dry throat. At this time, it is best for you to go to the hospital for a check-up.

When eating, it seems that something is stuck, sometimes like a pinprick in a needle.