Monday, March 31, 2008

Common symptoms of esophageal cancer

Early esophageal cancer due to superficial lesions can be asymptomatic, or occasional symptoms of nerve stimulation, often a transient. With the progress of disease symptoms, the frequency increased, its performance for swallowing Yingyi flu, swallowing pain, retrosternal discomfort nausea expansion, foreign body sensation in the esophagus, upper abdominal pain, throat tightening flu, the early symptoms of minor, easily ignored.
With the progress of disease, esophageal lumen stenosis, symptoms would also increase, mainly as follows:
1, aggravated sexual Yanxia difficulties: Start Fresh sporadic into the hardware occurs when, after gradually frequent, small mouth or pharynx to the slow delivery of water, only late into the semi-liquid, liquid, and water dripping from entering serious.
2, and the pain: hypopharynx, substernal pain, burning, pain rare, will occur in Yanxia, was more visible in the early substernal pain of the 1 / 5.
3, vomiting: With the progress of esophageal lesions will face varying degrees of obstruction, its top food retention, esophagus obvious expansion, which cause vomiting, vomit and foam mainly to mucus, mixed with a small amount of food.
4, weight loss: As modest reduction can cause weight loss, can be a serious evil of quality.
5, hematemesis, hematochezia: as rare as the first symptoms.
6, piercing symptoms: With the progress of disease, tumor can cause esophageal perforation, perforation site according to the size or performance, there will be high fever, rapid pulse, chest pain, choking, or drinking water.
7, Other: If supraclavicular lymph nodes, hoarseness, hepatomegaly.
Doctors advise
Once sexual dysphagia, retrosternal discomfort, pain Yanxia, please promptly to the hospital for further examination.

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