How to check early esophageal cancer

Update Date: 2022-08-24 Source: Network

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Today, my husband and I took my grandmother to the hospital for a physical examination because she said she felt uncomfortable swallowing food recently. After examining grandma, the doctor told us that Grandma had early esophageal cancer. Today, I'd like to talk with you about early detection of esophageal cancer.

How to check early esophageal cancer

First, the commonly used examination methods are gastroscopy, chest CT, PET-CT, esophagography, etc. Esophageal cancer is developed from atypical hyperplasia and can be stained with iodine. Using iodine staining can make early cancer and precancerous lesions easy to find. Microscopically, the early lesions are mainly inconsistent with the surrounding tissues, which can be divided into concealed type, erosive type, plaque type and mastoid type.

Second, especially with esophageal endoscopic ultrasonography, it has high accuracy in estimating the condition of tumor and understanding the relationship between tumor and surrounding tissues and organs. The results of long-term follow-up and statistical analysis showed that the depth of invasion of esophageal cancer was more important than the length of invasion.

matters needing attention

Although I had a premonition that there might be something wrong with Grandma's esophagus, I didn't expect that it was cancer. I was very sad after hearing that. The doctor told me that from now on, we should prepare soft food for grandma to swallow. At the same time, we should take medicine on time, and it's better to come to the hospital for regular physical examination.