What does esophageal ca mean? The meaning of esophageal ca

Esophageal CA is what we usually call esophageal cancer. Everyone should be very afraid when it comes to esophageal cancer. The current incidence of esophageal cancer is getting higher and higher. Patients will have a foreign body sensation in the esophagus, and in the late stage it will cause vomiting and vomiting blood. It must be treated with surgery in time.

1. Symptoms

1. The most common symptom is choking when swallowing, which may disappear or recur on its own and does not affect eating. The early symptoms of esophageal cancer often occur when the patient is emotionally unstable, so they are easily mistaken for functional symptoms.

3. Food retention infection and foreign body sensation When swallowing food or drinking water, there is a feeling that the food moves slowly down and is retained, as well as a feeling of tightness behind the sternum or food sticking to the esophageal wall, which disappears after the meal. The site of symptom occurrence is often consistent with the site of lesions in the esophagus.

4. Dryness and tightness in the throat are particularly obvious when swallowing dry and rough food. The occurrence of this symptom is often related to the patient's mood swings.

5. Other symptoms A small number of patients may experience discomfort behind the sternum, anterior pain and belching, which are early manifestations of esophageal cancer.

2. Late stage symptoms

1. Vomiting: The general symptom of vomiting is common in patients with mid-to-late stage esophageal cancer. It is usually manifested by patients vomiting foamy mucus or egg-like thick saliva. If vomiting symptoms occur in the middle and late stages of esophageal cancer, the main cause is esophageal obstruction, which prevents saliva and esophageal secretions from flowing into the stomach, as well as increased reflex secretions of the esophageal glands and salivary glands caused by esophageal cancer and inflammation. Normal mucus is sometimes bloody, or mixed with food from the previous meal or the next day. It has a fermented smell and may even contain necrotic and flaky tissue.

2. Vomiting blood: In the late stage of esophageal cancer, there will often be swelling and ulceration on the surface, or the vomiting of blood may be caused by food abrading the surface of the ulcer. Especially in the late stage of esophageal cancer, the tumor may damage the aorta, so there may be severe vomiting of blood, which may threaten the patient's life safety.

3. Symptoms of late-stage spread and metastasis of esophageal cancer: Relatively speaking, patients with late-stage esophageal cancer already have symptoms of spread and metastasis. Once the late-stage esophageal cancer has undergone extensive metastasis throughout the body, corresponding symptoms and signs will appear, such as jaundice and ascites, abnormal liver function, difficulty breathing, coma, etc.