What are the early symptoms of esophageal cancer?

  1.Choking sensation in the throat is the most common, which can disappear and recur spontaneously and does not affect eating. It often occurs when the patient has mood swings, so it is easily 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.  3, food retention infection and foreign body sensation when swallowing food or water, there is a feeling of slow downward movement of food and stagnation, as well as a feeling of tightness behind the sternum or food adhering to the esophageal wall, etc., which disappears after eating. The site of the symptoms is mostly the same as the site of the lesion in the esophagus.  4. Dryness and tightness 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, anterior pain.