Esophageal cancer is a common digestive tract cancer, although the symptoms of esophageal cancer are quite obvious, and the typical symptom is progressive dysphagia, but many people think it is pharyngitis and do not pay attention to it, so many times the best time is missed, and it develops into a serious disease, which increases the difficulty.
If you have the following 3 symptoms on a daily basis, do not hesitate to go to the hospital for diagnostic examination as soon as possible
1. Feeling a foreign body in the esophagus
As the name suggests, esophageal cancer is an obvious symptom that makes people always feel that there is something stuck in their esophagus, and they can't spit it out, and they can't swallow it, which is actually very likely to be caused by tumors in the esophagus, but unfortunately, many times it is despised as pharyngitis, because patients with pharyngitis always feel that there is something in their throat, always coughing, and getting phlegm. Therefore, if you feel that you have a foreign body sensation in your esophagus and have not been diagnosed with pharyngitis before, you should go to the hospital immediately for examination to find out whether it is pharyngitis or esophageal lesions.
2. Paresthesia when eating and swallowing
When you feel abnormal when swallowing, this is also one of the obvious symptoms of esophageal cancer, which is manifested in the feeling of choking when swallowing, and the feeling of esophageal pain when swallowing, the feeling of a foreign body in the esophagus or mild retrosternal pain, and the feeling of retrosternal pain when eating hot food.
3. Swallowing is difficult
If you have difficulty swallowing, this condition usually means that the condition may be very serious, at first you may only feel obviously difficult to swallow when eating large pieces of food, and later it will evolve into gradually just rice-sized food must be washed down with boiling water, and in the final stage, you may not be able to swallow even the simplest water, this process generally takes only 3 to 6 months.
There are two common pathological types of esophageal cancer, squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, and smoking, drinking, hot food, obesity, and gastroesophageal reflux may cause esophageal cancer. Any symptoms should be seen in time, early screening for esophageal cancer is really important and should be taken seriously!
1. Necessary examination of esophageal endoscopy
Endoscopy is a very important examination for the diagnosis of esophageal cancer, which is of great significance, it can go deep into the interior to observe the tumor condition, and early esophageal lesions can be detected by endoscopy in time, and the accuracy rate can be said to be high to more than 80%.
2. MIR or CT examination
MIR (or CT) examination can assist in understanding the anatomical relationship between esophageal lesions and surrounding tissues and organs, and provide the key information needed for subsequent persistent **, especially for radiation**, it is necessary to go through MIR or CT examination to determine the scope of invasion of esophageal cancer, and formulate a targeted ** plan according to the patient's situation after determining the range.
3. Examination of barium swallow imaging
Barium swallowography is an important way to screen for esophageal cancer in the early stage, but the scope of observation is limited, and the diagnosis rate is only about 50%, so it is only used as a basic screening for early esophageal cancer, and cannot be the final diagnosis method.