What symptom can esophagus cancer cause?

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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 cause?

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.

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The esophagus is the organ through which all food passes. Food forms a mass in the esophagus and enters the stomach in order for digestion. Eat slowly. Saliva is secreted by three kinds of glands. When it is fully mixed with food, it can promote digestion and hydrolyze starch or maltose; Dilute and dissolve food to enhance taste; Mucin can lubricate food and is easy to swallow; Neutralize toxic substances and kill bacteria. Swallowing can damage the esophagus. Don't eat overheated, hard and irritating food. Otherwise, oral, esophageal and gastric mucosa will be damaged. Irritant food also includes strong tea, strong coffee, liquor and so on. Pay attention to oral hygiene. Any oral lesions are adverse to digestion, if there is infection, it is easy to spread to the esophagus.