Symptoms of esophageal cancer patients before death

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My grandmother died of esophageal cancer. At the beginning, she often felt that there was a foreign body in her throat. She often felt that there was food in her throat and she didn't swallow it. Later, she lost a lot of weight. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, she didn't make a good turn. I'll tell you about the symptoms of esophageal cancer patients before she died.

Symptoms of esophageal cancer patients before death

Symptom 1: Dysphagia of esophageal cancer. Dysphagia is the main symptom of most patients, but it is the later stage of the disease. Because the esophageal wall is elastic and expansible, dysphagia occurs only when about 2 / 3 of the circumference of the esophagus is infiltrated by the cancer.

Symptom 2: Food reflux is also the symptom of esophageal cancer patients before death. It often appears when dysphagia worsens, and the reflux is not large. It contains food and mucus, and can also contain blood and pus. It also belongs to the pre death symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer.

Symptom 3: esophageal cancer patients before death will also show: cancer infiltrates the esophagus and invades mediastinum, trachea, bronchus, lung, pericardium, large blood vessels, causing mediastinitis, lung abscess, esophago tracheal fistula and fatal massive hemorrhage.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer patients should eat less spicy food, can eat some nutritious liquid food, progressive dysphagia is a typical symptom of advanced esophageal cancer, the beginning of solid food can not be swallowed smoothly, or with soup after swallowing, followed by semi fluid diet is also blocked, later into the liquid diet swallowing is also difficult.