What symptom does esophagus cancer have

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One of my uncles usually likes drinking and smoking, but recently he always said that when he ate, he had difficulty in swallowing, and he often coughed. He felt that there was a foreign body in the esophagus. When he went to the hospital, the doctor found that he had esophageal cancer! Next, I'd like to talk about the symptoms of esophageal cancer?

What symptom does esophagus cancer have

Symptoms 1, dry throat, chest tightness, obstruction, eating worse. Generally speaking, the initial stage of esophageal cancer, patients will not feel uncomfortable. With the growth of the tumor in the esophagus, there will be a sense of tightness or swelling in the chest, and often accompanied by a sense of dryness in the throat. The patient feels that there is always a stuffy feeling in the front of the chest. It seems that there is an object blocking, which makes the chest feel tight. This blocking feeling is particularly obvious when swallowing food. Because this feeling only occurs when eating, it does not affect the normal life and work, so it is easy to be ignored.

Symptom 2: foreign body sensation when eating, aggravating when the throat is dry and hard food. In the early stage, patients often feel foreign body when swallowing food. In the process of swallowing, the food (especially the dry and hard food) passes through the lesion area (the tumor lesion is very small) to produce a sense of foreign body, and this sense of foreign body is always fixed in a certain part, just like something can never be swallowed. Because the symptoms are mild and intermittent, it is easy to be neglected by patients.

Symptom 3: intermittent poststernal distension and slight pain. Some of the patients felt intermittent poststernal distension or slight pain. This kind of symptom is not persistent, but mostly intermittently or aggravates after fatigue and fast eating. This is because the esophagus itself at any time in peristalsis, only when peristalsis to the lesion site will appear symptoms.

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The early symptoms of esophageal cancer generally last for 3 months or even longer. If patients do not pay attention to these dangerous signals, it is easy to delay the disease and cannot be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible.