Initial symptoms and treatment of esophageal cancer

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Esophageal cancer is a terrible disease. The harm caused by esophageal cancer to patients is also serious. My uncle suffers from esophageal cancer. Now I will tell you about the initial symptoms and treatment of esophageal cancer, so that you can find and treat this disease as soon as possible.

Initial symptoms and treatment of esophageal cancer

Symptom 1: symptoms are often not obvious, but there may be different degrees of discomfort when swallowing coarse and hard food, including choking feeling of swallowing food, burning, needling or traction and friction pain behind sternum.

Symptom 2: often spit mucoid sputum, saliva and esophageal secretions for the hypopharynx. The patient gradually became thin, dehydrated and weak. Persistent chest or back pain is an advanced symptom, and the cancer has invaded extra esophageal tissue.

Treatment methods: surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and comprehensive treatment. Two or more therapies are used at the same time or successively, which is called comprehensive treatment. The results showed that the effect of comprehensive treatment was better.

matters needing attention

Patients with esophageal cancer must go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. Chemotherapy combined with surgery or combined with radiotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine can sometimes improve the curative effect, or relieve the symptoms of patients with esophageal cancer and prolong the survival period. But we should check the blood picture and liver and kidney function regularly, and pay attention to the drug reaction.