What symptom does nodal esophagus cancer have

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Esophageal cancer is a malignant digestive tract tumor occurring in esophageal epithelial tissue, accounting for 2% of all malignant tumors. Around 200 thousand people die from esophageal cancer every year. The incidence rate of esophageal cancer is very high in China, and the age of onset is over 40 years old. In order to prevent this situation, I'd like to introduce the symptoms of esophageal cancer.

What symptom does nodal esophagus cancer have

First: dysphagia: progressive dysphagia is the symptom of most esophageal cancer, but it is the later stage of the disease. Because the esophageal wall is full of elasticity and expansion ability, dysphagia occurs only when about 2 / 3 of the esophageal circumference is infiltrated by the cancer.

Second: Food reflux: esophageal cancer symptoms often appear when dysphagia worsens, reflux is not large, containing food and mucus, but also blood and pus.

Third: hoarseness: when the tumor directly invades or metastases oppress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, vocal cord paralysis occurs, leading to hoarseness. Some patients can improve their hoarseness due to effective treatment. Pain: chest pain or back pain is one of the common symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer. The pain is dull pain, dull pain or burning pain, stabbing pain, which can be accompanied by heavy feeling. Chest and back pain is often caused by periesophagitis, mediastinitis caused by cancer invasion, and even involving adjacent organs, nerves and paravertebral tissues. Ulcerative type and medullary type with ulcer pain is more common.

matters needing attention

Dysphagia is a typical symptom of patients with advanced esophageal cancer. In the process of radiotherapy, patients with esophageal mucosa congestion, swelling, aggravation, difficulty in swallowing, easy to support food, resulting in serious nutritional problems. Before radiotherapy, we should understand the dietary habits of patients, and pay attention to strengthen the dietary guidance for patients and their families. Give patients a reasonable, healthy and nutritious diet; light, easy to digest, high calorie, high protein, high vitamin and low-fat food; eat less and more meals, avoid hard, cold, spicy and irritating food; reduce the chemical stimulation to esophageal mucosa. Slow down the speed of food burst, to small door chew slowly swallow: swallowing is extremely difficult, can enter soft food or semi liquid, liquid diet. Diet is a key point in the postoperative nursing measures of various malignant tumor surgery, especially in the early stage after surgery, patients with esophageal cancer often can not directly take food, need to have a gradual process, and when can return to normal diet, we need to pay attention to some taboo diet, and help patients with esophageal cancer body recovery diet.