What are the symptoms of cardia cancer? Pay more attention to these symptoms

Cardiac cancer is a malignant tumor with a very high mortality rate. Due to its special location, it is relatively difficult to treat. Relatively speaking, it is slightly more controllable in the early stages, but this requires patients to understand the manifestations of the disease and discover it as early as possible. So what are the symptoms of cardia cancer?

1. Persistent pain

Patients with cardia cancer usually experience persistent dull pain behind the sternum or in the scapular area. This is generally caused by the invasion of cancer cells. Since this disease can cause patients to suffer from periesophageal mediastinitis, pain may also occur in the upper abdomen. This disease is peculiar in location and most of them cannot be removed by surgery. During routine care, we must pay attention to the possibility of tumor perforation.

2. Weight loss and emaciation

After the onset of this disease, the patient's weight will drop significantly, and the whole person will look much thinner. This is mainly because as the disease worsens, the patient will have difficulty eating and absorbing nutrients. If the patient is found to have obvious anorexia, it means that the tumor has already metastasized widely.

3. Dysphagia

Cardiac cancer may cause tumor erosion of the esophagus. When the tumor invades more than 2/3 of the esophagus, the patient will have obvious difficulty swallowing. At this time, the tissues around the esophagus and lymph nodes will also be invaded by the tumor, causing the disease to continue to worsen.

4. Hoarseness

It will also invade or metastasize to the surrounding lymph nodes. At this time, the tumor will compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, causing the patient to experience hoarseness.

5. Gastrointestinal bleeding

Normally, patients with cardia cancer will experience vomiting blood or bloody stools. Most of the time the amount of bleeding is not large, but when the tumor infiltrates into large blood vessels, heavy bleeding is likely to occur, and in severe cases it can be fatal.

6. Esophageal obstruction

Cardiac cancer causes obstruction in patients, and the tumor continuously infiltrates into the surrounding tissues, causing them to suffer from repeated inflammation. At this time, the secretion of the esophageal glands and salivary glands will increase significantly, causing mucus to accumulate in the esophagus and reflux, causing patients to choke and cough, and in severe cases, it can cause aspiration pneumonia.