What symptom can esophagus cancer have?

summary

There are many types of cancer, no matter which kind of cancer, the harm to patients is great. Esophageal cancer is a relatively high incidence rate of various cancers. Patients with esophageal cancer should adjust their mental state and face the disease positively. So, got esophagus cancer to have what symptom to appear? Let's take a look at the following introduction.

What symptom can esophagus cancer have?

Food retention, infection and foreign body sensation. When patients with esophageal cancer eat or drink water, they will feel the food descending slowly, and have the feeling of retention, sometimes accompanied by pain behind the sternum and the feeling of tightness or food adhering to the esophageal wall. However, these symptoms will disappear after the food is digested.

It's difficult to swallow. Dysphagia is one of the common manifestations of esophageal cancer, especially when swallowing some hard and coarse food, this kind of performance is more typical, accompanied by reflux phenomenon, but the reflux is not large, generally contains food, mucus or pus, etc.

Other symptoms. With the aggravation of esophageal cancer, the cancer will compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, leading to hoarseness and other diseases; The invasion of phrenic nerve can cause hiccup or phrenic nerve paralysis; When the cancer compresses the trachea or bronchus, the patient may have adverse symptoms such as shortness of breath and dry cough.

matters needing attention

When the symptoms of esophageal cancer appear, all patients should pay attention, not too pessimistic, should face the disease with a positive attitude, go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, and carry out scientific nursing work according to the doctor's suggestions.