Advanced esophageal cancer symptoms picture?

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Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor originated from esophagus. Squamous cell carcinoma is common. It is a malignant disease with high incidence rate and high mortality rate in China. General patients are often in the late stage.

Advanced esophageal cancer symptoms picture?

The main symptom of most patients is progressive dysphagia. In the early stage, solid food is not easy to swallow, and in the late stage, even liquid is difficult to swallow. The metastasis and spread of tumor cause corresponding diseases, such as jaundice when metastasis to liver and obvious bone pain when metastasis to bone.

* because of the expansion and retention of the proximal segment of esophageal obstruction, the swallowing food will regurgitation, and it also contains the abscission tissue of esophageal necrosis. Because of fear of pain and reduce food intake, resulting in severe malnutrition, emaciation, and even accompanied by chronic dehydration.

Due to esophageal wall ulceration, tumor invasion, when swallowing will feel obvious pain, especially when eating overheated or sour food, the pain is aggravated.

matters needing attention

Other symptoms: when the recurrent laryngeal nerve is compressed by the cancer, hoarseness may be caused; when the phrenic nerve is invaded, Hiccup or phrenic nerve paralysis may be caused; when the trachea or bronchus is compressed, shortness of breath and dry cough may occur; when the aorta is eroded, fatal bleeding may occur. When esophago tracheal or esophago bronchial fistulas or cancer located in the upper part of the esophagus, swallowing liquid can often produce cervical sympathetic paralysis syndrome.