Stenting refers to intra-esophageal stenting. Whether the number of patients with advanced esophageal cancer choosing intra-esophageal stenting is large or not does not have scientific reference basis, and doctors will decide whether to choose intra-esophageal stenting or not according to the specific conditions of patients.
Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor originated from the mucosal epithelium of the esophagus, which is mainly related to dietary and living habits, pre-cancerous diseases, infection, heredity, and eating too hot food for a long time. Symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer include tumor obstructing the esophagus, persistent pain and so on.
Intraesophageal stenting is suitable for most of the advanced esophageal cancers with obstruction symptoms, but if the obstruction of esophageal cancer is too high for the esophageal stent to be put in safely, the stent can’t be placed in this case.
Intraesophageal stenting is performed by observing the lower edge of the lesion stenosis through endoscopy, locating the endoscopic position under radiography, and then placing the stent along the guidewire, which has been put into the esophagus beforehand, into the appropriate position of the esophageal stenosis under the guidance of the radiography. Intraesophageal stent placement provides longer-term relief of the obstruction, thereby improving the patient’s quality of life.
Patients should follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment to avoid adverse reactions.