What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer? How to treat it?

Introduction: Esophageal cancer is a common digestive tract disease in daily life, with a particularly high incidence rate, especially among people over 40 years old. The most typical symptom is dysphagia, which brings great discomfort to the body. What Bian Xiao wants to share today is, what are the symptoms of esophageal cancer? How should it be treated?

1. What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer?

The most obvious symptom of esophageal cancer is that it hurts when swallowed. When eating, I feel my throat is particularly uncomfortable. It seems that something is stuck and I can't swallow it. Even if you eat liquid food, you can't swallow it, and it will be very uncomfortable. Over time, it will make patients lose weight, even dehydration and limb weakness. And the chest will feel pain, and after a period of chest pain, it will also cause back pain. Because it is difficult to swallow, the food you eat can't enter the esophagus, so it will lead to more and more food residues, which will make patients feel sick and vomit. And the surface of the vomit is stained with a lot of mucus and blood.

Second, how to treat esophageal cancer?

Surgical treatment of esophageal cancer is also effective. Once esophageal cancer is diagnosed, it should be operated immediately if physical conditions permit, so as to find and treat it earlier and prevent complications. It can prolong the survival time of patients, and radiotherapy can be used to treat esophageal cancer. There are two kinds of radiotherapy, one is single radiotherapy and the other is postoperative radiotherapy. Monoradiotherapy is mainly because the early symptoms of esophageal cancer are not obvious and are easily ignored by people. When esophageal cancer was really diagnosed, it had reached the middle and late stage of esophageal cancer. Surgical treatment is useless at this time. In this case, a single radiotherapy can be used to relieve the disease. Postoperative radiotherapy is mainly postoperative, and radiotherapy is needed for later recovery.