Esophageal Cancer

Esophageal cancer is esophageal cancer, which can be consulted in gastroenterology, oncology and thoracic surgery according to the progress of its condition; esophageal cancer can have progressive dysphagia, retrosternal pain, emaciation and other symptoms due to family genetics, bad living habits and dietary habits. 1. Consult gastroenterology: as esophageal cancer will lead to dysphagia and difficulty in eating, patients with advanced stage will have malnutrition and wasting, so nutritional support therapy (enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition) is very important for the survival of patients and subsequent anti-tumor treatment. 2. Consultation with oncology department: according to the patient’s condition, doctors will adopt radiotherapy (using radiation to kill cancer cells), chemotherapy (using chemicals against cancer cells, such as cisplatin, carboplatin, etc.), neoadjuvant chemotherapy (chemotherapy before surgery is called “neoadjuvant chemotherapy”), synchronous radiotherapy (chemotherapy can be carried out at the same time with radiotherapy, which is called “synchronous radiotherapy”), and radiotherapy (chemotherapy can be carried out at the same time with radiotherapy). (chemotherapy can be given at the same time as radiation therapy, which is called “simultaneous radiotherapy”). 3. Consultation with thoracic surgery: whether patients with esophageal cancer meet the indications for surgery, they need to consult thoracic surgery for surgical treatment, including conventional open-heart surgery and thoracolaparoscopic surgery. Patients with esophageal cancer need to go to regular hospitals for consultation, and physicians should take corresponding treatment measures and methods according to the patients’ conditions, and they should not use medicines indiscriminately.