Esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in China. The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are often not obvious and can be easily overlooked, and the disease may even be delayed to an advanced stage. If you have basic knowledge about esophageal cancer and are alert to the symptoms, it is not difficult to detect it early. Early symptoms of esophageal cancer may include the following: 1. Choking and stagnation when swallowing food: Generally, it is caused by swallowing dry rice or steamed buns in large mouth. This symptom can disappear on its own, or can be relieved by swallowing water, but it can appear again after several days or weeks, and the number of times will gradually increase, and the degree of choking will be aggravated again and again. 2.Pain in the front of the chest when eating: this feeling often occurs when swallowing, and its nature can be burning, needle-like or friction-like pain. When swallowing rough, overheated, irritating food (such as chili pepper, strong wine), the pain increases, and then disappears after swallowing. This kind of pain, at the initial stage is relatively mild, and the number of occurrences is relatively small, but later it can gradually increase and recur. 3, foreign body feeling in the esophagus: generally when swallowing this feeling, but some patients do not do swallowing action also feel foreign bodies in the esophagus, as if there are food residues adhering to the esophageal wall, although not painful, but feel uncomfortable. 4. Dryness and tightness in the throat: Some patients often complain of dryness and tightness in the throat, or describe it as tightness in the neck, especially 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 symptoms such as stuffy discomfort behind the sternum and uterine gas. Doctor’s tip: The treatment of esophageal cancer is a comprehensive treatment mainly based on surgery. Early detection of esophageal cancer has satisfactory treatment effect, and most patients with early stage esophageal cancer can survive for a long time. Therefore, those with the above manifestations need to be noticed and should go to hospital for examination in time, early diagnosis and early treatment of esophageal cancer can significantly improve the therapeutic effect.