Early symptoms of esophageal tumor?
summary
The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are more common in men over 40 years old. The early symptoms of esophageal cancer can appear alone or in parallel. Some of the early symptoms of esophageal cancer last for a long time, while others occur intermittently. In the early patients, there are only a few patients who have no early symptoms of esophageal cancer, but the symptoms are relatively hidden, which is easy to be ignored. If the early symptoms of esophageal cancer are found, they should seek medical treatment in time, and they should not be taken lightly to delay the disease.
Early symptoms of esophageal tumor?
The food passes slowly and has the feeling of staying, the pain under xiphoid process, the small esophageal orifice, the dysphagia of food and the feeling of staying. These early symptoms of esophageal cancer only appear in the hypopharyngeal food, disappear immediately after eating, and have no relationship with the nature of the food, even when drinking water. Xiphoid (heart) pain: self feeling xiphoid for burning like tingling, varying in severity, mostly appear in the hypopharyngeal food, reduce or disappear after eating. Early esophageal cancer symptoms are not obvious, cancer tissue is only limited to the esophageal mucosa, its range is generally less than 2cm, but not without symptoms. For example, foreign body sensation in esophagus, burning sensation, and sometimes retention sensation or stabbing sensation behind sternum when eating. Most of these symptoms are ignored by patients and are considered to be caused by not paying attention to eating or pharyngitis. With the gradual aggravation of the disease, the patient may have choking feeling and difficulty in eating and drinking.
It is difficult to point out the position of discomfort and describe the specific situation of discomfort. Retrosternal pain: this manifestation is more common in patients with early esophageal cancer. The early symptoms of esophageal cancer often have slight pain behind the sternum when swallowing food, and can feel the pain site. The nature of pain can be burning pain, acupuncture pain, traction and friction pain. When swallowing rough, hot or irritating food, the pain is more severe; When swallowing liquid and warm food, the pain is relatively mild. When swallowing food, the pain is relieved or even disappeared after eating. Most of the symptoms can be treated with drugs, which can be temporarily relieved, but after a few days or months, the disease will relapse and recur for a long time.
There is a sense of dryness and urgency in the throat. I often feel that the food in the lower throat is not smooth, and I have slight pain, a little dry and tight feeling. Especially when swallowing dry or coarse food, the feeling of dryness and tightness is more obvious. In addition, the occurrence of early symptoms of this kind of esophageal cancer is related to emotional fluctuations. With the development of the disease, after several months or 2-3 years, dysphagia gradually worsened. At first, it was difficult to swallow rice and steamed bread. Later, it was difficult to eat noodles and porridge. Finally, it was difficult to swallow rice soup and milk. Further development, there will be other complications. When cancer invades the recurrent laryngeal nerve, the patient's voice becomes hoarse. When the tumor invades the trachea or lungs, persistent persistent cough can occur. Chest pain and nausea can be felt when chest mediastinum and transverse septum are invaded. If the cancer penetrates into the trachea and forms the esophagus and trachea, fever, cough, expectoration and hemoptysis may occur. If it penetrates the thoracic aorta, it can cause massive hematemesis and even death.
matters needing attention
Choking feeling when swallowing food in the early stage of symptoms of esophageal cancer, because the lesions often show local small-scale esophageal mucosal congestion, swelling, erosion, superficial ulcer and small plaque canceration, when food passes through, there will be feeling of swallowing discomfort or dysphagia. If the disease develops further, the feeling of choking will appear, which is mostly found when swallowing similar pancakes, dry steamed buns or other food that is not easy to chew thoroughly. It is difficult to eat for a long time, the patient is malnourished, and the patient is older. Therefore, when the patient has the above early symptoms, he should go to the hospital for esophageal barium meal X-ray examination.
