The last symptom of esophageal cancer

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The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are relatively mild, and it is easy to be ignored. Delaying treatment can make the disease continue to develop. In the middle and late stages, the symptoms are very obvious. If you find any discomfort in your body, you should actively treat it, because patients with advanced esophageal cancer are prone to metastasis and spread. Here we will give you a detailed introduction, The last symptom of esophagus cancer?

The last symptom of esophageal cancer

Dysphagia: progressive dysphagia is the most typical symptom of advanced esophageal cancer. At first, solid food cannot be swallowed smoothly, or it can be washed with soup and then swallowed. Then, semi liquid diet is also blocked, and finally, it is difficult to swallow liquid diet. The degree of dysphagia is closely related to the pathological type, and the narrowing type and medullary type are more serious.

Bleeding: cancer tissue necrosis, ulceration or invasion of the great blood canal causes hematemesis or melena, tumor invasion of the aorta can cause massive bleeding death. Hoarseness: when the tumor directly invades or metastases oppress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, vocal cord paralysis occurs, leading to hoarseness. Some patients can get better hoarseness due to effective treatment.

Pain: chest pain or back pain is one of the common symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer, pain is dull pain, dull pain or burning pain, tingling, can be accompanied by heavy feeling, chest and back pain is often caused by cancer invasion caused by esophagitis, mediastinitis, and even involving adjacent organs, nerves and paravertebral tissue. Ulcerative type and medullary type with ulcer pain is more common.

matters needing attention

Patients with advanced esophageal cancer in the last days will not eat anything, the body will be extremely short of water, there are serious dehydration phenomenon, some patients with mental state is particularly poor, such symptoms will have a great impact on the patient's body, the patient's family members must be careful care.