Symptoms of esophageal cancer before death?

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Esophageal cancer is a disease with high incidence rate in China. Especially in some high incidence areas, it has a great relationship with the local eating habits, and symptoms are not too obvious in early days. Many people do not know their symptoms well after the advanced stage, so what are the symptoms of esophageal cancer before death? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of esophageal cancer before death?

1. Dysphagia: dysphagia is the most typical disease of esophageal cancer in the middle and advanced stage. It is difficult to swallow solid food after chewing. It is difficult to swallow with soup or water. It is also difficult to swallow semi liquid food. Finally, it is difficult to swallow liquid food. The degree of dysphagia is closely related to the pathological type of the disease, and the narrowing type and medullary type are more serious.

2. Bleeding: esophageal cancer tissue necrosis, ulceration or invasion of large blood vessels, causing hematemesis or black stool when defecating, such as tumor invasion of aorta can cause massive bleeding and death. Spit mucus: esophageal lesions caused by esophageal incomplete or complete obstruction, it will make secretion drainage is not smooth, accumulate in the upper part of esophageal stenosis, will stimulate esophageal retrograde peristalsis spit out.

3. Pain: chest or back pain is one of the common symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer, pain is divided into dull pain, tingling, burning pain, dull pain, but also with a heavy feeling. Chest and back pain is usually caused by cancer invasion caused by periesophageal inflammation, mediastinitis, and may even involve adjacent organs, or nerve paravertebral tissue. The patients with ulceration and medullary ulcer had more common pain.

matters needing attention

In the early stage of the disease, if the patient can still eat normally, we must actively strengthen nutrition, pay attention to eat fresh food, supplement protein, vitamins, sugar, fat, etc., so that the patient can maintain and enhance disease resistance, create conditions for treatment, and reserve certain nutrients to prevent complications such as cachexia. When patients with severe choking symptoms caused by the disease should be given concentrated liquid diet rich in high-quality protein, sugar, lipids, inorganic salts and vitamins to reduce the stimulation of cancer tissue.