How to detect esophageal cancer early

  In our daily life, we can be our own doctors as long as we pay more attention to our own life, pay attention to our eating habits and subtle changes.  But if you have some abnormalities, don’t be careless. When you have some changes as below, it may be your body is giving you an alarm.  1, choking sensation in the throat is the most common, can disappear and recurrence of self-selection, does not affect eating. Often occurs when the patient’s mood swings, so it is easy to be mistaken for functional symptoms.  2.Posterior sternal and subxiphoid pain is more common. When swallowing food, there is pain behind the sternum or subsynovial pain, the nature of which can be burning-like, pinprick-like or pulling-like, with the swallowing of rough, burning or irritating food as the focus. Initially, it is intermittent, but when the cancer invades nearby tissues or penetrates, there can be severe and continuous pain. The site of pain often does not exactly correspond to the site of lesion in the esophagus. The pain can be temporarily relieved by antispasmodics.  When swallowing food or water, there is a sensation of slow movement and retention of food, as well as a feeling of tightness behind the sternum or food adhering to the esophageal wall. The site of the symptoms is mostly the same as the site of the lesion in the esophagus.  4. Dryness and constriction in the throat is especially obvious when swallowing dry and rough food, and the occurrence of this symptom is often related to the patient’s mood swings.  5, other symptoms a few patients may have posterior sternal stuffiness and discomfort.