How much does minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer cost

With the continuous development of society, many diseases can be cured through minimally invasive surgery, but people are often concerned about the cost. How much does minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer cost? What should I pay attention to after the surgery? How much does minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer cost?

There is no definite answer to this question. It mainly depends on the patient's physical condition and whether the treatment method is reasonable. Early esophageal cancer may have no symptoms or only mild symptoms, such as choking when swallowing food. These symptoms include pain behind the sternum, esophageal pain when swallowing, burning sensation, and tingling sensation. In the middle and late stages of esophageal cancer, there may be progressive dysphagia, vomiting of mucus, chest and back pain, weight loss of varying degrees, cachexia, etc.

If it is lower esophageal-cardia cancer, it may also be accompanied by symptoms such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding and anemia. When the trachea and main bronchi are involved, there may also be esophageal-tracheal fistula symptoms such as coughing when drinking water and severe infection, which seriously affects the patient's quality of life and survival time. Many patients pay too much attention to the cost of esophageal cancer surgery, but ignore the key to treating the disease is still technology.

Surgery is high-risk and has a high recurrence rate. It not only cannot relieve the patient's pain, but also increases the difficulty of treatment, causing the disease to develop to an uncontrollable situation. Chemotherapy has a certain effect on some patients. However, chemotherapy alone has large side effects and is a systemic treatment, which can easily shorten the survival period.

Radiotherapy has always been an effective treatment method favored by esophageal cancer patients, but everyone knows that radiotherapy is a treatment method that is very harmful to the human body. When choosing this treatment method, patients should first consider whether their physical condition can withstand the harm of radiotherapy.

What should patients with esophageal cancer pay attention to after surgery?

After esophageal cancer surgery, patients need to refrain from eating. Generally, after 3 to 4 days, intestinal peristalsis is restored and the gastric tube is removed. On the fifth day, liquid diet without residue can be taken. Water is the main food, 50 ml each time, once every 2 hours. On the sixth day, liquid diet is taken, mainly rice juice, once every 3 hours, 100 ml each time. On the seventh day, egg soup and porridge are the main foods, 200 ml each time, once every 4 hours. Generally, semi-liquid diet is taken on the twelfth day after surgery, mainly light and easily digestible food.

The above is a detailed introduction to the cost of minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer and postoperative precautions. I believe that everyone has a better understanding of how to effectively treat esophageal cancer, which will definitely be of great help in the future development process.