Late symptoms of esophageal cancer

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My cousin died of esophageal cancer. At the beginning, he felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. He couldn't swallow his meal. He felt his throat was blocked. His family thought he was in a bad mood. Until esophageal cancer was detected, we couldn't believe it. Let's tell you what the symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer are!

Late symptoms of esophageal cancer

Symptom 1: there are many symptoms of esophageal cancer, which need attention. You may feel throat pain. In the late stage, you will feel pain when eating and drinking water. In the early stage, patients generally do not have obvious symptoms, but will only have different degrees of discomfort when swallowing food, such as choking feeling after swallowing food, burning after sternum, etc. are common symptoms.

Symptom 2: in addition, the patient will have a sense of stagnation or foreign body when eating. With the development of symptoms, the patient's symptoms will continue to worsen, some dry food will be difficult to swallow, and then some semi liquid food, water and so on will become difficult to swallow, which needs our attention.

Symptom 3: the patient will become emaciated, weak and dehydrated. When the cancer invades the extra esophageal tissue, there will be persistent chest pain or back pain. Some patients will appear hoarse symptoms, is due to cancer invasion of recurrent laryngeal nerve.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer patients must be treated in time, early removal of lesions, cancer cells will spread, cancer will continue to invade other parts of the body, such as trachea, bronchus, etc., resulting in patients with trachea or bronchial fistula, severe cough, respiratory infection and other symptoms.