Advanced symptoms of esophageal cancer?

summary

Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor in gastrointestinal tract, which incidence rate is next only to stomach and esophagus cancer. It is the most common part of colorectal cancer (about 60%). The vast majority of patients are over 40 years old, and about 15% are under 30 years old. The ratio of male to female is 2-3:1. In the early stage of bowel cancer, hematochezia is the main cause, followed by the change of bowel habits, incomplete defecation, urgency, and so on. In addition, it is easy to cause obstruction and intestinal irritation. Cancer has many outstanding clinical manifestations, patients need to be more careful. Advanced symptoms of esophageal cancer? Let's talk about it

Advanced symptoms of esophageal cancer?

Bleeding: cancer tissue necrosis, ulceration or invasion of large blood vessels cause hematemesis or melena, tumor invasion of aorta can cause massive bleeding death. Mucus vomiting: incomplete or complete obstruction of the esophagus caused by esophageal changes caused by esophageal lesions, resulting in poor drainage of secretions and accumulation in the upper part of esophageal stenosis, which stimulates esophageal retrograde peristalsis and then spits out.

Dysphagia: progressive dysphagia is a typical symptom of advanced esophageal cancer. At first, solid food can not be swallowed smoothly, or it can be washed with soup and then swallowed. Then, the semi liquid diet is also blocked, and the later liquid diet is also difficult to swallow. The degree of dysphagia is closely related to the pathological type, and the narrowing type and medullary type are more serious.

Pain: chest pain or back pain is one of the common symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer. The pain is dull pain, dull pain or burning pain, stabbing pain, which can be accompanied by heavy feeling. Chest and back pain is often caused by periesophagitis, mediastinitis caused by cancer invasion, and even involving adjacent organs, nerves and paravertebral tissues. Ulcerative type and medullary type with ulcer pain is more common.

matters needing attention

The occurrence of esophageal cancer may be related to long-term drinking of strong liquor, smoking habit, food hardness, overheating, eating too fast, causing chronic irritation, inflammation, trauma or oral unclean, caries, etc. Lack of vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin C and insufficient intake of animal protein, fresh vegetables and fruits are common characteristics of high incidence areas of esophageal cancer.