What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer

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Esophageal cancer is a disease that many people suffer from now. It is not easy to find this disease in the early stage, because it has no obvious symptoms. It often delays the treatment of patients and causes some irreparable losses. However, if you are careful, you can still find some clues. Esophageal cancer is divided into three stages, one is early stage, There is also the mid-term, and then the late, different periods of symptoms are not the same, the following is to introduce the symptoms of esophageal cancer, hope to help you.

What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer

In the late stage, patients will have dysphagia, hoarseness, shortness of breath and dry cough. In addition, patients will have some symptoms of malnutrition, emaciation, anemia and water shortage, jaundice and ascites, which need attention.

In the middle stage of esophageal cancer, patients will feel pain behind the sternum and under the xiphoid process, which is the same as the initial symptoms of esophageal cancer. In addition, there will be food retention, infection and foreign body sensation, especially when drinking water, they will feel this situation more. In addition, patients will feel dry throat and some tightness. In addition, there will be tightness and discomfort behind the sternum.

The early symptom of esophageal cancer is pharyngeal obstruction, which is also a common symptom, but it does not affect the patient's eating. The patient will have this symptom when his mood fluctuates. In addition, the patient will feel pain behind the sternum and under the xiphoid process, especially when swallowing food. In addition, he will feel burning or acupuncture pain.

matters needing attention

It should be noted that many patients with esophageal cancer are caused by some bad living habits, such as eating hot food or eating fast. Therefore, if you want to prevent this disease, you should pay attention to these situations. You should develop good living habits, eat slowly, and don't eat too hot food, and pay attention to supplement some vitamins, Eat more healthy green food.