Q: My father has been more than 70 years old, in a major hospital diagnosis of advanced esophageal cancer, the doctor said surgery has not only carried out chemotherapy, radiotherapy, medicine and other non-surgical treatment. How can early detection of esophageal cancer?
A: The symptoms do not obvious early esophageal cancer, cancer of the esophagus only confined to the mucosal layer, the scope of generally less than 2 cm, but not without symptoms. If foreign body sensation in the esophagus, burning sensation, eating sometimes stranded flu or flu substernal pain, these symptoms have mostly been neglected patients, it is caused by eating unawareness, or are perceived to be caused by pharyngitis. As the disease has increased gradually, patients, there may be eating Yingyi flu, eating influent difficulties. At this time treatment of esophageal cancer is more advanced, long eating difficulties, the patient malnutrition, coupled with getting on in age, lost the opportunity to surgery. So in the early symptoms of the above should go to the hospital, esophageal barium X-ray examination. If the diagnosis is also not clear, microscopic examination should be carried out esophagus, esophageal fiber inspection accuracy rate of 99%, generally not missed. Early treatment of esophageal cancer by surgery, the five-year survival rate of more than 80%, so a patient should be early discovery, early diagnosis and treatment, and this is the key to the treatment of esophageal cancer.
A: The symptoms do not obvious early esophageal cancer, cancer of the esophagus only confined to the mucosal layer, the scope of generally less than 2 cm, but not without symptoms. If foreign body sensation in the esophagus, burning sensation, eating sometimes stranded flu or flu substernal pain, these symptoms have mostly been neglected patients, it is caused by eating unawareness, or are perceived to be caused by pharyngitis. As the disease has increased gradually, patients, there may be eating Yingyi flu, eating influent difficulties. At this time treatment of esophageal cancer is more advanced, long eating difficulties, the patient malnutrition, coupled with getting on in age, lost the opportunity to surgery. So in the early symptoms of the above should go to the hospital, esophageal barium X-ray examination. If the diagnosis is also not clear, microscopic examination should be carried out esophagus, esophageal fiber inspection accuracy rate of 99%, generally not missed. Early treatment of esophageal cancer by surgery, the five-year survival rate of more than 80%, so a patient should be early discovery, early diagnosis and treatment, and this is the key to the treatment of esophageal cancer.
