Possible symptom of esophageal cancer at an early stage

Insidious cancer disease, which enslaves the people of the whole planet, can be diagnosed at an early age and try to outrun in the struggle for their lives.

Esophageal carcinoma. Symptoms, signs, diagnostics

Often a person can carry in himself fatal cells and nurture them, without even assuming it. The first symptom of esophageal cancer often appears even when the disease is deeply ingrained in the body.

Only then alarm bells begin to appear.

Possible symptom of esophageal cancer

Alarm signals can be:

- difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia), sensation of food jam in the esophagus;
Pain during swallowing;
- Pain in the chest or back;
- a sharp and tangible weight loss;
- frequent heartburn;
Sharp harshness of the voice;
- a cough that does not pass for several weeks.

Symptom of esophageal cancer in more detail

Insidious cancer hides its essence as long as its presence in the body is unstable and easily curable. Once the cancer reaches maturity and starts its sharp claws in other organs in the form of metastases, it begins to demonstrate its primacy in the human body.

First of all, the patient becomes difficult to swallow. It all begins with dry fibrous food, which in healthy people sometimes causes irritation of the esophagus. However, over time, this pathology turns into frightening forms, a person can not even swallow liquid substances, down to simple water.

Especially differs dysphagia in cancer is its increasing pulsation. If the physical disruption of the structure of the mucosa, for example, in the wound, dysphagia will be stable and constant until the painful sensations are eliminated, then in cancer it has a pulsating character and grows with time.

An unpleasant odor from the oral cavity, a bitter-sweet taste in the mouth, an enclosed tongue can testify to cancer during the early stages. Then there may be copious salivation. Then frequent belching, small amounts of regurgitation, frequent nausea and vomiting immediately after eating.

Already much later, with the development and rooting of cancer, metastases deform the lumen of the esophagus, squeeze, grow together inside it, the mucous membrane becomes covered with ulcers and decomposes. The pain is localized in the thoracic zone, in the region of the stomach, sometimes manifested from the back. Symptoms of dysphagia become aggravated and increase, food causes burning sensation, scarring in the esophagus.

Following the example of all malignant tumors, esophageal cancer deprives a person of vitality and energy. The patient begins to lose weight rapidly and comes to exhaustion.

If there was at least one disturbing symptom of esophageal cancer

Necessary survey:

- Radiography with longitudinal tomography: reflects the picture of the trachea, the largest bronchi, and lymph nodes.

- Contrasting the esophagus. A solution of sulphate is introduced, through which the size and texture of the lumen of the esophagus, its width and the contracting ability are estimated.

- Radiocontrast study of the stomach is performed for the purpose of analyzing the state of the stomach in case of possible resection of the esophagus.

- Esophagogastroscopy, which allows to evaluate the tumor, the location of its localization, the type of growth, the extent.

Malignant disease is esophageal cancer, symptoms. A photo

If the tumor has spread beyond the esophagus and has reached the last stages, then treatment becomes impossible. In this case, doctors recommend improving the patient's condition and maximally helping him to fight with pain and discomfort.

Be healthy!