Symptoms before death from advanced esophageal cancer

What are the symptoms before death from advanced esophageal cancer? The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are relatively mild and easily ignored. Delaying treatment will allow the disease to continue to develop. In the middle and late stages, the symptoms are very obvious. If you find that you have any discomfort in your body, you should actively seek treatment, because patients with advanced esophageal cancer are prone to metastasis and spread. We will introduce it to you in detail below, and hope it will be helpful to you.

Symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer:

1. Dysphagia: Progressive dysphagia is the most typical symptom of mid- and late-stage esophageal cancer. It starts with the inability to swallow solid food smoothly, or swallowing it after washing it with soup. Then, semi-liquid food is also blocked, and finally, liquid food is also difficult to swallow. The degree of dysphagia is closely related to the pathological type, and the stricture type and medullary type are more serious.

2. Bleeding: When cancerous tissue necroses, ruptures or invades large blood vessels, it can cause vomiting blood or black stools. When the tumor invades the aorta, it can cause massive bleeding and death.

What are the symptoms before death from advanced esophageal cancer? 3. Neck: Supraclavicular mass: It is a common sign of advanced esophageal cancer. The mass is painless, progressively enlarges, and is hard. It is mostly on the left side but can also be bilateral.

4. Hoarseness: When the tumor directly invades or the metastatic lesions compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, vocal cord paralysis occurs, leading to hoarseness. Hoarseness may improve in some patients with effective treatment.

5. Pain: Chest pain or back pain is one of the common symptoms of mid- to late-stage esophageal cancer. The pain is dull, burning, or stabbing, and may be accompanied by a sense of heaviness. Chest and back pain is often caused by the invasion of cancer, which causes esophagitis and mediastinitis, and even affects adjacent organs, nerves, and paravertebral tissues. Pain is more common in ulcerative and medullary types with ulcers.

6. Food reaction: The esophageal changes caused by esophageal lesions cause incomplete or complete esophageal obstruction, which makes secretions difficult to drain and accumulate in the upper part of the esophagus, stimulating the esophageal reverse peristalsis and then vomiting. It often occurs when dysphagia worsens, and the reflux volume is not large, containing food and mucus, and may also contain blood and pus.

Advanced cancer patients are weak and cannot withstand surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Choosing a treatment method that is appropriate for the symptoms is the most important thing for cancer patients. For patients who are old, weak or cannot undergo surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, the use of 5A multi-cell targeted biological immunotherapy can also significantly control the proliferation and spread of tumors, relieve pain, improve the patient's immune function, enhance disease resistance, improve the patient's quality of life, and prolong life.