Self-diagnosis method of esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is not a new word in clinical practice. In real life, people go out early and come back late every day to survive. Even if they feel unwell, they don’t have much time to see a doctor. The symptoms of esophageal cancer can be used as a basis for patients to self-diagnose. Now let me introduce to you the self-diagnosis measures for esophageal cancer:

The onset of esophageal cancer is insidious. Some patients may feel a foreign body in the esophagus, or feel slow or choking when food passes through. It may also manifest as burning, pricking, or pulling pain behind the sternum when swallowing. Advanced esophageal cancer often causes difficulty in swallowing, which progresses progressively and may even cause complete inability to eat. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting, upper abdominal pain, and weight loss. In the late stage of the disease, due to long-term insufficient food intake, there may be obvious malnutrition, weight loss, cachexia, and complications such as cancer metastasis and compression. For example, hoarseness caused by cancer compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, pain caused by bone metastasis, and jaundice caused by liver metastasis.

Symptoms of esophageal cancer are how patients diagnose themselves:

1. Weight loss: In people’s daily lives, patients will experience weight loss, continuous emaciation, dehydration, and fatigue due to the continuous reduction in food intake. This is the most basic self-diagnosis method for esophageal cancer.

2 Pain: According to investigations and studies, pain behind the sternum and under the xiphoid process is a typical symptom of the disease, and the nature of the pain may be dull pain, burning pain, or friction-like pain. This is the most obvious self-diagnosis method for esophageal cancer.

3 Perforation: When the patient's condition deteriorates to a certain extent, the tumor will cause perforation of the patient's esophagus, and depending on the degree, the patient will experience high fever, rapid pulse, chest pain, and choking when drinking water.

4. Vomiting: As the cancer continues to develop, it will cause varying degrees of obstruction to the patient's esophagus, causing food retention in the upper part of the patient and obvious expansion of the esophagus, which will lead to vomiting in the patient.

The above content introduces the self-diagnosis measures for esophageal cancer. When symptoms of esophageal cancer appear, you can diagnose yourself based on the symptoms to see if you really have esophageal cancer. If you cannot make a correct diagnosis, you can go to the hospital for professional diagnosis.