What are the early symptoms of esophageal cancer

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I have a good classmate who has been working together in the same company since graduation. Our company is very busy every day. As a result, we often work overtime, stay up late and eat irregularly. My classmate went to the hospital when he felt unwell and consulted the relevant doctors. After checking, it turned out to be esophageal cancer. Now let me talk about the early symptoms of esophageal cancer.

What are the early symptoms of esophageal cancer

First: there is a feeling of choking when swallowing food. In the early stage of the disease, the lesions often show local small-scale esophageal mucosal congestion, swelling, erosion, superficial ulcer and small plaque lesions. When food passes through, there will be a feeling of discomfort or unsmooth swallowing. If the disease further develops, there will be choking feeling, mostly because of swallowing similar pancakes, dry molds or other food that is not easy to thoroughly chew.

Second: there is a sense of foreign body in the esophagus. The patient feels that once he grazed the esophagus because he ate coarse food, or he suspected that he swallowed the foreign body by mistake and left it in the esophagus. There are similar phenomena, such as grains of rice or pieces of vegetables attached to the esophagus, and he can't swallow it. That is to say, no pain has nothing to do with eating. Even if he doesn't swallow, he still has the feeling of foreign body. The location of foreign body sensation was consistent with the location of esophageal cancer.

Third: the food passes slowly and has the feeling of staying, often has the esophagus mouth to become smaller, the food swallows difficultly and has the feeling of staying. These symptoms only appear when swallowing food and disappear immediately after eating, and have no relationship with the nature of food, even when drinking water. There is a sense of dryness and urgency in the throat. I often feel that the food in my lower throat is not smooth, and I have slight pain, a little dry and tight. Especially when swallowing dry or coarse food, the feeling of dryness and tightness is more obvious. In addition, the occurrence of such early symptoms is related to emotional fluctuations.

matters needing attention

Because the pace of modern life is faster and faster, life is more and more irregular, diet is not healthy, do not understand esophageal cancer, think that cancer is far away from their own, not easy to cause their attention, the early symptoms of esophageal cancer is still very obvious, once found uncomfortable, should be treated as soon as possible.