Will I die from esophageal cancer?

Is esophageal cancer serious enough to cause death? Esophageal cancer is one of our common diseases. With the continuous development of the medical industry, there are many treatments for esophageal cancer. The treatment of esophageal cancer is generally based on surgical resection, but not everyone is suitable for this method. The best treatment method is to formulate the best treatment plan based on the patient's condition. Let's take a detailed look at whether esophageal cancer will cause death?

1. Reasonable treatment methods. For patients in the advanced stage, cancer cells have spread and metastasized significantly, and they are no longer suitable for surgical treatment. According to data, the 5-year survival rate of patients with advanced esophageal cancer treated with comprehensive Western medicine is about 15%, but this data is meaningless when applied to a specific person, because there are great differences between people. Will patients with advanced esophageal cancer and metastasis die? Reasonable treatment methods can effectively control the progression of the patient's disease and prolong life, but if the treatment method is not suitable for the patient's condition, or the toxic side effects are too great, it will cause the patient's life to be shortened due to excessive treatment.
2. The patient's condition and constitution. There is a big difference in the effect between well-differentiated cancer and poorly differentiated cancer, and there is also a difference in the treatment effect between esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. In addition, there will be certain differences in treatment and prognosis between patients with esophageal cancer with extensive metastasis and those without metastasis, and the patient's own constitution also determines their survival time. Generally, when the disease develops to the late stage, the physical strength will be significantly reduced, but patients who still have a certain resistance will have a longer survival period after reasonable treatment. If patients with poor physical constitution adopt some therapies with great toxic side effects, it will be difficult for the patients to bear it, and they will die prematurely due to excessive treatment.