Early detection of esophageal cancer

In recent years, the incidence of esophageal cancer has continued to rise, bringing a lot of trouble and harm to people, and increasing people's fear of cancer. However, many people actually don't know much about esophageal cancer. The less they know, the more afraid they are of it. So today, experts will explain to you what are the examination items for esophageal cancer?

Esophageal exfoliative cytology examination: The biggest feature of this examination method is that it causes less pain to the examinee and has a high accuracy rate. Practice has shown that the total positive rate of esophageal cancer detected by this examination in areas with a high incidence of esophageal cancer is as high as more than 90%, making it the preferred method for early diagnosis of esophageal cancer.

X-ray barium meal contrast: This examination is not easy to detect early esophageal cancer, so during the test, the doctor will ask the patient to swallow barium in small sips several times, and then through observation and double contrast of air and barium, it can be found whether the esophageal mucosa is thickened, tortuous or interrupted in a dotted line. In addition, it is easy to find whether there is a defect on the edge of the esophagus, localized stiffness of the tube wall, barium retention and other early signs of esophageal cancer.

Chest CT scan: This examination is helpful for staging, resection judgment, and prognosis estimation of esophageal cancer.

Fiber endoscopy: This examination has become a routine clinical diagnostic method for digestive tract diseases such as esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. This device is bendable, has a wide visual range, and is highly accurate. The detection rate of fiber endoscopy for early esophageal cancer can reach more than 85%.

Esophageal endoscopic ultrasound examination: In recent years, esophageal endoscopic ultrasound examination has been gradually applied in clinical practice. Its advantages are that it can accurately measure the depth of lesions infiltrating the esophageal wall; it can measure abnormally enlarged lymph nodes outside the wall; and it is easy to identify the location of lesions in the esophageal wall.

The above are the examination methods used in medicine to diagnose esophageal cancer in recent years. With the progress of the times, medical research on cancer has also been progressing, and more and more cancers can be cured. Therefore, esophageal cancer is definitely not an incurable disease. As long as the patient faces it bravely and actively treats it, complete recovery is entirely possible.