Symptoms of esophageal cancer before death?

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Esophageal cancer, many people feel that suffering from esophageal cancer is very terrible, especially now many people do not have the habit of regular physical examination, when the body is uncomfortable, the disease is often in the late stage, or even on the verge of death. So what are the symptoms of patients with advanced esophageal cancer before death? Now let's take a look at the specific introduction.

Symptoms of esophageal cancer before death?

When the cancer tissue invades or oppresses the recurrent laryngeal nerve, vocal cord paralysis occurs, and the patient has hoarseness, or even aphasia. It is more common in the upper esophageal cancer and the left recurrent laryngeal nerve. Sometimes, the enlarged metastatic lymph nodes oppress the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The patient has hoarseness symptoms, often chokes due to aspiration when eating, and sometimes causes aspiration pneumonia.

The corresponding symptoms caused by extensive systemic metastasis, such as jaundice, ascites, dyspnea and vocal cord paralysis caused by tracheal compression. For persistent pain in all parts of the body, the possibility of metastasis should be considered. These can lead to cachexia, dehydration and systemic failure. This is due to the obstruction of esophageal cancer, the patient does not drip and the whole body consumption.

Bleeding: cancer tissue necrosis, ulceration, invasion of large blood vessels cause hematemesis or melena, tumor invasion, aorta can cause massive bleeding death. Neck, supraclavicular mass: is a common sign of advanced esophageal cancer, the mass is painless, progressive enlargement, hard, mostly left, but also bilateral.

matters needing attention

1. Eat high protein food. 2. Eat high vitamin food. 3. Eat high calorie and digestible food. 1. Avoid salted vegetables, bacon and other food. 2. Avoid eating moldy rice, noodles, peanuts and other foods. 3. Avoid smoked fish, meat, sausage and other food.