Among the many tumor diseases, esophageal cancer is a more common gastrointestinal tumor disease.
In recent years, both the morbidity and mortality rate of this disease have been on the rise, and the typical symptom of esophageal cancer is that patients have symptoms of dysphagia.
In general, patients who have just begun to have esophageal cancer are difficult to swallow dry and hard food, and as the disease intensifies, resulting in the final inability to swallow water and saliva, this condition will seriously affect the normal life of patients, and esophageal cancer has a certain heritability;
In addition, the emergence of esophageal cancer is also very closely related to the patient's usual living habits and eating habits.
What are the causes of esophageal cancer in patients?
1. Patients often eat some foods that are too hot or too spicy
If the patient often eats some foods that are too hot or irritating, these foods will often stimulate the patient's esophagus, which may cause lesions in the mucosa of the patient's esophagus, and people who drink alcohol for a long time are also prone to esophageal cancer.
People who usually have bad living habits, such as eating too fast, or easy to swallow food without chewing, cause certain damage to the mucous membrane of the esophagus.
2. The patient is affected by the surrounding environmental factors
In general, the lack of trace elements in water or soil can also cause esophageal cancer. In general, if our water lacks trace element aluminum, the content of nitrite increases.
If the human body uses too much nitrate, it will cause bacterial lesions and produce nitrosamine compounds, which are recognized carcinogens and can induce diseases such as esophageal cancer, stomach cancer and bowel cancer.
3. The patient eats food contaminated with mold for a long time
In some places, people like to eat sauerkraut, or pickles that have been fermented for many years.
This food that has been contaminated with bacteria or fungi for a long time is also very irritating to the stomach and intestines, and this mold is prone to toxins and strengthens nitrite.
Therefore, we must pay attention to the intake of sauerkraut and pickles in our lives to prevent the synthesis of nitrosamines and promote the growth of cancer cells.
What are the main clinical manifestations after a patient develops esophageal cancer?
1. The patient has symptoms of dysphagia
Dysphagia is the most typical symptom of esophageal cancer. Usually, the patient will feel that there will be food temporarily stuck in the esophagus while swallowing, like a gas blocking the feeling of food falling.
In the early stages of the disease, because the tumor is small, the impact on the human body is not very large.
This also leads to early symptoms that are very easy to ignore by patients, but due to the gradual enlargement of the later stages, the lumen becomes smaller and smaller, which will affect the patient's eating.
2. The patient will feel chest pain after eating
When it is difficult to swallow food, you can also feel pain behind the sternum.
This pain is generally presented as a dull pain, because after we eat food, the pain will be aggravated, and the food will irritate the lump, causing a dull pain sensation in the chest.
If the food is hot or irritating, the pain will be more pronounced, but after swallowing the food slowly, the pain may be slightly relieved.
Although most people are not particularly clear about the cause of esophageal cancer, there are some precautions that can be taken in daily life.
For example: usually do not eat too hot food, do not eat too fast, prevent not chewing into the esophagus, stimulate the esophageal mucosa, thereby causing various symptoms, do not eat moldy food, eat less sauerkraut, because some moldy food will produce toxins in the body, sauerkraut will promote the synthesis of nitrosamines, these substances have a strong carcinogenic effect.