Suspected esophageal cancer how to check

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If you often cough or throat discomfort, you can go to the hospital for examination, may be suffering from esophageal cancer. The neighbor grandfather is like this. At the beginning, he just didn't want to eat and couldn't swallow. After he went to the hospital for examination, he actually suffered from esophageal cancer. So let's talk about how to do the examination in the hospital when he suspected that he had esophageal cancer!

Suspected esophageal cancer how to check

First of all: there are many ways to check esophageal cancer. In the examination methods of esophageal cancer, the location and scope of esophageal lesions are directly observed by endoscopy. Generally, the diagnosis is made by taking out the cells or part of the tissue in the lesion area of esophageal wall by endoscopy.

Secondly, there is another kind of examination that requires patients to drink barium developer. Barium developer can adhere to the surface of esophagus in our body and show the degree and lesion of esophageal obstruction by X-ray. So we can show it effectively.

Finally: esophageal cancer can also choose to use chest X-ray, computed tomography, abdominal ultrasound, positron emission tomography and a series of methods to assess whether our body's esophageal cancer has metastasized.

matters needing attention

Therefore, when patients have the above symptoms, they should go to the hospital in time to seek examination, make a diagnosis, and then further develop the treatment plan. Do not judge there by yourself, otherwise it will affect the best treatment period. During the treatment of esophageal cancer, patients must rest and do not let themselves be too tired.