What is the concept of esophageal cancer stage 3

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The third brother feels very painful when eating recently, so he can't eat a lot of things and has no appetite. He can only drink a little gruel. The doctor says that this is esophageal cancer, and it has reached stage III. now let me talk about the concept of stage III esophageal cancer.

What is the concept of esophageal cancer stage 3

Stage 1: stage 3: esophageal cancer penetrates deeper muscular layer of esophageal wall with lymph node invasion; or cancer has invaded other normal tissues nearby. The treatment of esophageal cancer includes surgical treatment, radiotherapy and drug therapy, as well as surgery plus radiotherapy or drug combination therapy.

Second: pain behind sternum and under xiphoid process. The pain symptoms are also more common. Generally, when the patient swallows food, there will be pain behind the sternum and under the xiphoid process. The nature of pain can be burning, acupuncture or traction. At the beginning, the attack is intermittent, but when the cancer invades nearby tissues or penetrates, there will be severe and persistent pain symptoms.

Third: food retention infection. Esophageal cancer patients in swallowing food or drinking water, will feel food down slowly and retention feeling, but also often feel behind the sternum there is a sense of tightness or food adhesion to the esophageal wall, once eating, symptoms will disappear. This is especially true when the patient swallows dry coarse food. In addition, experts also introduced that the occurrence of this symptom is often related to the emotional fluctuation of patients.

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Esophageal cancer stage III belongs to the mid-term nature, patients often have obvious feeling, the common symptoms of stage III esophageal cancer patients are dysphagia, or even pain, very uncomfortable, it is recommended that if the patient has the above symptoms, must go to the regular hospital in time.