Is it necessary to do esophageal endoscopy to diagnose esophageal cancer?

Although esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor disease, its early symptoms are very hidden, making it difficult for many patients to discover abnormalities in their bodies. Once discovered, it is basically in the late stage. Therefore, patients must clearly understand the specific symptoms and examination methods of esophageal cancer in order to detect the disease in time and treat it early. So does esophageal cancer have to be diagnosed by esophagoscopy?

Experts suggest that esophageal cancer does not necessarily require esophagoscopy for diagnosis. What are the examination methods for esophageal cancer? The introduction is as follows:

Method 1: X-ray barium meal examination.

Through clinical observation, it is found that X-ray barium meal examination is one of the important means to diagnose esophageal lesions and cardiac tumors. This examination method combines cytology and esophageal endoscopy, which can effectively improve the accuracy of diagnosis of the disease.

Method 2: Esophageal exfoliative cytology examination.

According to experts, this examination method is relatively simple, the most important thing is that the patient suffers less pain, and the misdiagnosis rate is relatively low. For patients with high blood pressure, severe heart disease, esophageal varices, and lung diseases, this examination is not suitable.

Method three: CT scan.

Generally speaking, CT scans can clearly show the relationship between the patient's esophagus and adjacent organs, but its disadvantage is that it is difficult to detect early esophageal cancer lesions.

Warm reminder: Esophageal cancer is very harmful to patients. It not only causes physical pain to patients, but also brings great psychological pressure. As a patient, once you find something wrong with yourself, you must go to the hospital for medical examination, timely diagnosis, and early treatment.