What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer

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One of my primary school classmates met me in the hospital by chance. I went to the hospital to have a physical examination as usual. I asked my primary school classmate what he was doing in the hospital. He said that he had esophageal cancer and had been treated in the hospital. Now let me talk about the symptoms of esophageal cancer.

What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer

First: pharyngeal choking sensation: most common, can choose to disappear and relapse, does not affect eating. It often occurs when the patient's mood fluctuates, so it is easy to be mistaken for functional symptoms. Poststernal and infraxiphoid pain: more common. When swallowing food, there is pain behind the sternum or under the xiphoid process. The nature of the pain can be like burning, needling or pulling, especially when swallowing rough, hot or irritating food.

Second: it is intermittent at the beginning. When the cancer invades nearby tissues or penetrates, there will be severe and persistent pain. The site of pain is often not completely consistent with the lesion in the esophagus. Most of the pain can be temporarily relieved by antispasmodics. Food retention, infection and foreign body sensation: when swallowing food or drinking water, there is a feeling of slow food down and retention, as well as a feeling of tightness behind the sternum or food adhering to the esophageal wall.

Third: disappear after eating. The location of symptoms was consistent with that of esophageal lesions. Throat dry and tight feeling: swallowing dry coarse food is particularly obvious, the occurrence of this symptom is often associated with the patient's emotional fluctuations. Other symptoms: a small number of patients may have symptoms such as poststernal stuffy and distending discomfort, anterior pain and gasping.

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Patients with esophageal cancer are very uncomfortable, because esophageal cancer patients in the early stage of eating when swallowing is more painful, until the mid-term, when swallowing food will have pain, until the late, when swallowing food will feel obvious difficulty.