What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer that are easily overlooked

Esophageal cancer is often caused by bad eating habits in life. The occurrence of esophageal cancer has caused many inconveniences to the patient's diet and life, and caused great harm to his body. However, the early symptoms of esophageal cancer are often not obvious and are easily ignored by patients. Therefore, it is important to understand the easily ignored symptoms of esophageal cancer in advance.

So what are some of the symptoms of esophageal cancer that are easily overlooked?

1. Cachexia

As the disease progresses, patients may experience symptoms of esophageal obstruction, which prevents them from eating properly and leads to cachexia due to malnutrition. Cancer cells may infiltrate the esophagus and invade some important surrounding tissues and organs, causing lung abscesses, esophageal tracheal fistulas, or massive bleeding that may lead to death.

2. Vomiting

During the diet, patients often overlook the symptoms of esophageal cancer such as food reflux. This symptom often causes bleeding when the patient's dysphagia symptoms worsen. The patient's reflux volume is not large, and it is mainly foam and viscous liquid, occasionally containing a small amount of food, which may also contain blood or pus.

3. Difficulty swallowing

This symptom usually occurs when the disease has developed to the middle or late stage, and it is also one of the symptoms of esophageal cancer that is easily overlooked. Since the esophagus itself has a certain elasticity and stretchability, when two-thirds of the esophagus is infiltrated by cancer cells, it will cause dysphagia. As the tumor grows, the patient will also experience adverse symptoms such as edema and spasm, which will aggravate the difficulty in swallowing.

To sum up, the occurrence of esophageal cancer causes great harm to patients. Only after understanding the above-mentioned esophageal cancer symptoms that are easy to ignore, can we pay attention to the disease, raise vigilance, and strive for early detection and treatment.