Patients with esophageal cancer must always pay attention to its common symptoms

Esophageal cancer has become a common digestive tract malignancy in humans, and its incidence ranks fourth among malignant tumors. However, most patients still ignore the symptoms of esophageal cancer, which directly leads to the infinite deterioration of the disease, which is very dangerous in the later stages. Therefore, we must understand the symptoms of esophageal cancer in order to detect the disease in time. Let's take a look at the symptoms of esophageal cancer.

Symptoms of esophageal cancer include:

1. When the disease develops to the middle and late stages, patients may experience hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, food regurgitation, persistent dull pain in the back scapular area or sternum, vomiting blood or black stools, etc. These are all symptoms of esophageal cancer. Although the symptoms may worsen or alleviate during this period, the general trend is to continue to worsen.

2. In the late stage, patients will experience cachexia, dehydration, jaundice, ascites, tracheal compression leading to dyspnea, vocal cord paralysis, coma, and other symptoms, accompanied by water and electrolyte disorders. When the cancer infiltrates and penetrates the esophagus, trachea, hilum, pericardium, large blood vessels, etc., this is also a symptom of esophageal cancer.

3. The symptoms of esophageal cancer are mild and not obvious, manifested as a feeling of obstruction when swallowing, stagnation of food in a certain place, discomfort behind the sternum and burning pain.

The above content is the symptoms of esophageal cancer. I hope you can read it carefully. Only by knowing more about the symptoms of esophageal cancer can patients receive treatment as soon as possible, and then it will not be difficult to control the disease. So please keep in mind the above symptoms of esophageal cancer, which will definitely be helpful for the patient's condition. Finally, I wish all patients can fight the disease to the end.