What symptom does esophagus cancer have?

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Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor originated from esophagus. Squamous cell carcinoma is common. It is a malignant disease with high incidence rate and high mortality rate in China. General patients are often in the late stage.

What symptom does esophagus cancer have?

The main symptom of most patients is progressive dysphagia. In the early stage, solid food is not easy to swallow, and in the late stage, even liquid is difficult to swallow. The metastasis and spread of tumor cause corresponding diseases, such as jaundice when metastasis to liver and obvious bone pain when metastasis to bone.

* because of the expansion and retention of the proximal segment of esophageal obstruction, the swallowing food will regurgitation, and it also contains the abscission tissue of esophageal necrosis. Because of fear of pain and reduce food intake, resulting in severe malnutrition, emaciation, and even accompanied by chronic dehydration.

Due to esophageal wall ulceration, tumor invasion, when swallowing will feel obvious pain, especially when eating overheated or sour food, the pain is aggravated.

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The location of foreign body sensation was consistent with the location of esophageal carcinoma. When swallowing food, there is a sense of foreign body in the esophagus. In the early stage, it is sometimes hidden and sometimes present, but it has the characteristics of gradual aggravation, and then there is progressive dysphagia. In the late stage, the esophagus will be blocked by cancer, solid food can't be swallowed, and even water can't reach the stomach in serious cases.