Early symptoms of esophageal cancer

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The early symptoms of esophageal cancer can appear alone or in parallel. Some of the early symptoms of esophageal cancer last for a long time, while others occur intermittently. Among the early patients, there are only a few who have no early symptoms of esophageal cancer. Let's talk about the early symptoms of esophageal cancer.

Early symptoms of esophageal cancer

First, the food passes slowly and has the feeling of staying, the pain under the xiphoid process, often the esophageal orifice becomes smaller, the food swallows difficultly and has the feeling of staying. These early symptoms of esophageal cancer only appear in the hypopharyngeal food, disappear immediately after eating, and have no relationship with the nature of the food, even when drinking water. Xiphoid (heart) pain: self feeling xiphoid for burning like tingling, varying in severity, mostly appear in the hypopharyngeal food, reduce or disappear after eating.

Second, there is a feeling of tightness and distension behind the sternum, and the pain behind the sternum can only vaguely feel the discomfort of the chest, which can neither point out the position of discomfort, nor describe the specific situation of discomfort. Retrosternal pain: this manifestation is more common in patients with early esophageal cancer. The early symptoms of esophageal cancer often have slight pain behind the sternum when swallowing food, and can feel the pain site. The nature of pain can be burning pain, acupuncture pain, traction and friction pain.

Third: the throat has a sense of dryness and urgency, often feel the food is not smooth, and there is a slight pain, a little dry, tight feeling. Especially when swallowing dry or coarse food, the feeling of dryness and tightness is more obvious. In addition, the occurrence of early symptoms of this kind of esophageal cancer is related to emotional fluctuations. With the development of the disease, after several months or 2-3 years, dysphagia gradually worsened. At first, it was difficult to swallow rice and steamed bread. Later, it was difficult to eat noodles and porridge. Finally, it was difficult to swallow rice soup and milk.

matters needing attention

Avoid eating cold liquid food, and do not drink cold noodles, milk, and egg soup that have been kept for a long time. Because the narrow part of the esophagus is very obvious to stimulate cold food, it is easy to cause esophageal spasm, nausea, vomiting, pain, distension and numbness. So it's better to eat warm food.