Esophageal cancer, i.e. esophageal cancer, needs to be treated with general measures, as well as surgical treatment, medication and radiotherapy in the late stage of drinking and choking.
1. General measures: patients with advanced esophageal cancer need to take enteral nutrition such as inserting nasal feeding tube or gastrostomy when choking on water. Some patients also need to take intravenous infusion of amino acid, glucose, fat milk, electrolyte and other nutrients.
2. Surgical treatment: For patients with choking on water in the advanced stage of esophageal cancer, endoscopic endoesophageal stenting and endoscopic dilatation can be adopted under the guidance of doctors.
3. Drug therapy: patients with choking on water in late stage of esophageal cancer can be treated with chemotherapeutic drugs such as 5-fluorouracil, paclitaxel, etc., which can be combined with targeted therapy and immunotherapy according to the situation.
4. Radiation therapy: patients with advanced esophageal cancer who choke on water can be treated with radioactive irradiation, which can effectively kill cancer cells.
It is suggested that patients with advanced esophageal cancer who have choking cough in drinking water need to consult doctor in time, and need to choose appropriate measures of treatment under doctor’s guidance to prolong the survival period and improve the quality of life.