Esophageal cancer Symptoms and Signs

Early symptoms of esophageal cancer:

1. The most symptoms is ingested rancid terrier, may disappear and relapse-on-demand, does not affect the eating. Mood swings often occur when patients, so easily mistaken for functional symptoms.

2. Retrosternal and Xiphoid pain see more. Ingested food from time to time under the sternum or Xiphoid pain was burning its nature can be like, needle-like or retraction-like to swallow rough, burning or irritation of the food for. Was intermittent at first, when the tumor invasion and in the vicinity or when there is penetration, it can have severe and persistent pain. Pain often is not completely consistent esophageal lesion. Pain may be more than temporary relief spasmolytic agent.

3. Food stranded infection and foreign body sensation. Ingesting food or water, a food and slow down the feeling of being stranded, as well as tightening retrosternal adhesion flu or food to eat, such as feeling the wall, complete disappearance of food. Symptoms with esophageal site within the same lesion.

4. Throat feeling dry and tight. Swallow dry food is particularly rough, the symptoms often associated with the occurrence of fluctuations in the patient's mood.

5. Other symptoms of a small number of patients have nausea expansion retrosternal discomfort, pain.

The medium symptoms of esophageal cancer:

A typical medium esophageal cancer symptoms: progressive dysphagia, retrosternal pain and spitting sputum myxoid when swallowing. Other medium symptoms of esophageal cancer is like with the early.

Severe esophageal cancer symptoms:

1. Dysphagia and swallowing difficulties for the vast majority of patients when they seek medical treatment is the main symptom, but it is the performance of relatively late disease. Because the esophageal wall and the expansion of flexible capacity, only when about 2 / 3 of the esophageal circumference was invasive cancer, the only dysphagia. Therefore, in the early onset of symptoms, the condition in a few months to increase gradually, from the development can not swallow solid food to liquid food and can not swallow. Esophageal wall, such as cancer associated with inflammation, edema, convulsions, etc., can be difficult to add to swallow. Obstruction is often a sense of the location of the site in line with the hands of cancer.

2. Food reactions often increase when dysphagia, anti-throughput, including food and mucus, but also containing blood and pus.

3. Other symptoms when the cancer can be caused by recurrent laryngeal nerve compression hoarseness; violations hiccup can cause phrenic nerve or the phrenic nerve paralysis; tracheal or bronchial compression may be dyspnea and dry cough; erosion aortic bleeding can be fatal. Concurrent esophageal - tracheal or esophageal - bronchial fistula or cancer located in the upper esophagus, the swallowing of liquid from time to time may produce paralysis of cervical sympathetic syndrome.

Later Esophageal cancer signs include hiccough, difficulty swallowing. And patients with eating difficulties as a result of malnutrition can lead to emergence of weight loss, anemia, loss, or cachexia, such as signs. When the cancer metastasis may be hard hit and swollen superficial lymph nodes, or nodes and liver nodules. Jaundice may also occur, such as ascites. There are other signs of a rare skin, abdominal white line Department nodules, inguinal lymphadenopathy.