Esophageal cancer is one of the common malignant tumors in China, and the incidence rate of esophageal cancer in some regions of China is the highest in the world. Early detection and treatment is the key to achieve good results. Patients with esophageal cancer usually consult the doctor because of progressive dysphagia symptoms, and most of them are in the middle or late stage when they consult the doctor. What are the early manifestations of esophageal cancer? Next, we will introduce the early manifestations of esophageal cancer, hoping that it will be helpful to you, and also hoping that patients with similar symptoms will be alert and go to the hospital in time. (1) Early manifestation of esophageal cancer: patients feel that there are similar rice grains or vegetable slices in the esophagus attached to the wall of esophagus, which can not be swallowed or spit out, and it has nothing to do with eating, and even if there is no swallowing action, there is also a feeling of foreign body, and the location of foreign body is the same as that of esophageal lesion. (2) Choking sensation when swallowing food: Early symptoms are atypical, often with increased salivation, discomfort in swallowing, generally able to eat ordinary food, not affecting health, sometimes there is a sense of stagnation when swallowing food. Sometimes there is stagnation when swallowing food. Symptoms are often related to the patient’s mood fluctuations. (3) Poststernal pain or stuffy discomfort: About half of the patients complain of slight pain or stuffy discomfort at the back of the sternum when swallowing food. The pain is obvious when swallowing rough and hard food, hot food or stimulating food, and the pain is lighter in liquid and warm food, and the pain is reduced or disappeared when swallowing food, and there are some individuals with heavier pain, which is persistent, and the patient’s self-awareness of pain site is not consistent with the lesion in the esophagus. This is one of the early manifestations of esophageal cancer. (4) Feeling of slow passage and retention of food, and the same feeling in drinking water. In addition, some patients have early manifestations of esophageal cancer such as back heaviness and belching. More than half of the patients have symptoms for more than one year, and some of them have symptoms for as long as four years, which is of great clinical significance for early diagnosis and treatment of early esophageal cancer. The above is the introduction of early manifestation of esophageal cancer, which is for your reference only. If there is early manifestation of esophageal cancer, please do not delay the treatment time and go to the hospital in time to receive the treatment, in addition, if you still have any questions about the early manifestation of esophageal cancer, please feel free to consult us.