Esophageal cancer, also called esophageal cancer, is a malignant tumor that originates in the esophagus and has many different treatments.
There is a medical rule that the more treatments available, the harder it is to cure the disease, and a rule that the earlier the cancer is detected, the better the treatment.
So, the treatment effect of esophageal cancer depends on whether it is early when it is detected. By early stage esophageal cancer, it means that the depth of esophageal cancer infiltrating the esophageal wall is still shallow and there is no lymph node metastasis drinking distant organ metastasis. The results are quite good and the 5-year survival rate can exceed 90%.
If the tumor is not in the early stage when it is detected, the first treatment is surgical resection, but the surgeon needs to evaluate whether it can be surgically resected.
With the development of medicine, targeted therapies have brought new hope to patients with esophageal cancer. Depending on the biology of the resected tumor, targeted therapies can be chosen to treat the tumor, but the cost of treatment can be higher.