Is there a difference between esophageal cancer and laryngeal cancer?

Dysphagia is one of the common symptoms of esophageal cancer, but the cause of dysphagia is not necessarily esophageal cancer. For example, pharyngitis is also accompanied by dysphagia. Patients are generally prone to confuse the two. Experts say that there are some differences between the two in terms of dysphagia, so be careful to distinguish them.

Differences in swallowing difficulties between esophageal cancer and pharyngitis

There is a very important difference between the symptoms of esophageal cancer and pharyngitis. Although chronic pharyngitis also causes a foreign body sensation when swallowing, the nature of the dysphagia is different from that of esophageal cancer. For chronic pharyngitis, there is no difference between eating solid and liquid foods.

The difficulty in swallowing caused by esophageal cancer is a process. First, it is difficult to swallow solid food, then semi-solid food, then liquid food, and finally water. This is the essential difference from chronic pharyngitis. For atypical cases, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to make a clear diagnosis as soon as possible to avoid unpredictable serious consequences and harm to your health.

Understanding the difference in swallowing difficulties between esophageal cancer and pharyngitis can help people make a more accurate judgment on esophageal cancer and pharyngitis, and distinguish these diseases in a timely manner to avoid delaying basic treatment.