The early signals of esophageal cancer

Saturday, March 29, 2008 · Posted in

Esophageal cancer is a common cancer of the Also serious threat to the health and lives of the people of one disease. Every year about 209,000 people die of esophageal cancer. Esophageal cancer treatment outcome of the illness is the difference between the disparity between the morning and evening. Surgical treatment as an example, early cancer five-year survival rate around 90 percent, while in advanced cancer five-year survival rate to 20 percent from 30 percent. Esophageal cancer is the formation of esophageal mucosa from normal epithelial cell receptor stimulation factors inside and outside of the cancer has gradually changed. From normal epithelial develop into cancer need more time still unclear, generally, from severe esophageal epithelium proliferation develop into cancer takes several years, by the early development of cancer in advanced cancer to take about a year.
Early esophageal cancer that no previous symptoms and signals is wrong. Because these signals and symptoms of mild, and disappeared the next, without treatment can automatically disappear, they have been neglected patients and doctors, unable to further examine the diagnosis, treatment after losing the best opportunity. In fact, the vast majority of patients with early esophageal cancer have experienced different types, different degrees of subjective symptoms if they have the following symptoms should arouse vigilance.
1. Swallow food this time Gengye flu symptoms most common. Some patients can even clearly recall the first time. These symptoms without treatment can automatically disappear, a few days or a few months later again, after the frequency and the extent of Gengsha flu on the increase.
2. Hypopharyngeal substernal pain and esophageal when such pain flu symptoms are more common. After eating at the sternum or esophageal pain, a burning sensation, acupuncture flu, or influenza traction friction flu. Sandy swallowing rough or hot food had increased sense of pain, small mouth or swallowing dilute the food was cold temperature pain lighter. Pain generally more practical parts of the high number of cancer sites. Lower esophageal cancer, pain can occur in the abdomen. A few days later after treatment or medication can ease the pain. Improper or emotional eating fluctuations pain will be there. This situation will be repeated.
3. Flu patients with esophageal foreign bodies within a certain time to eat consciously food pierced into the esophagus, esophageal wall in the attached food, pharynx through. 4. Slow down food and food through the esophagus stranded flu when patients feel less pleasant, food downlink slow, or even somewhere to stay. This feeling has nothing to do with the nature of food, drinking water sometimes will emerge in such an impression. 5. Throat and a dry sense of austerity may be accompanied by minor pain, and patients sometimes the emotional wave dynamics. 6. Sternum after nausea bulging flu patients often can not specifically describe this feeling, only saying that the chest tightness uncomfortable.

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