Question 1

what are the symptoms of esophogeal cancer?

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Swallowing: Trouble swallowing is the main one.  Others may include unexplained weight loss, microscopic blood in the stool, anemia, chest pain.  Sometimes heartburn can be a symptom of early esophageal cancer or a premalignant esophageal lesion (barrett's).

Question 2

what is the prognosis for esophogeal cancer?

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Poor: Esophageal cancers are usually very aggressive. If they have spread outside of the esophagus can usually not be cured. The life expectancy of most esophageal tumors is measured in weeks to months. However, if the cancer is limited to the lining (high grade dysplasia) or is small in size, surgery with or without chemoradiation can help. Visit: http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pubmedhealth/pmh0001328/.

Question 3

is esophageal cancer treatable?

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Yes: Definitely treatable.  They approach to treatment will vary according to the stage of the disease.

Question 4

how do you prevent esophageal cancer?

Accepted Answer

Depends on type: Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus for the most part is casued by smoking, consuming alcohol, nitrosamines, such as pickled foods and smoked meats.  Avoid or limit the above risk factors, especially smoking and excessive alcohol.  Adenocarcinoma is casued by acid reflux.  Diet modication and antiacids help reflux.  If you have barrett's metaplasia, then you should be in an endoscopy program.

Question 5

how fast esophageal cancer tumor grow?

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Fast: From unseen to obstructing in a year is possible.

Question 6

can esophageal cancer be asymmptomatic?

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At first, yes.: This cancer may be unnoticable until it is fairly advanced.  Dysphagia, or inability to swallow solid foods, may be easily overlooked at first.  It gets noticed when it gets worse for solids and then liquids.  Pain or odynophagia, hoarseness, and pulmonary aspiration can also occur.  Double contrast barium swallow is a good screening test, while flexible esopagogastroscopy is the best.

Question 7

with esophageal cancer, what causes odynophagia?

Accepted Answer

See below: Invasion of the esophageal wall by tumor, muscle spasm from obstruction to the flow of food, invasion of nerves by cancer are some of the causes.
Have a healthy diet, exercise 30 minutes/day, drink plenty of water daily so your urine is mostly colorless, have safe sex, no tobacco alcohol weed or street drugs. For nutrition: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/.
Get HPV and Covid vaccines.

Question 8

how do you treat esophageal cancer in a 21 year old?

Accepted Answer

Choices: Depends on location, extent, stage and associated illnesses.

If complete surgical resection is possible, that is best!
sometimes preop radiation is used.

If not operable, oncologists will do their best with chemo and radiation.

Question 9

what happens if you keep smoking with esophageal cancer?

Accepted Answer

Higher cancer risk: Mouth, tongue, throat, esophagus, lung, bladder and stomach cancers are all associated with  use of  tobacco.  Smoking increases the risk of all these whether you have had one cancer or not.  Stop smoking!  go to the american cancer society for a stop smoking class- free usually.  Talk to your doctor, use hypnosis, use patches, use gum, use anything that works.  Use tootsie pops like telly savalas.

Question 10

will taking rabeprazole mask signs of esophageal cancer?

Accepted Answer

No: This medicine is an antacid...So it can not mask anything. Most essophagus-related cancer patients will have difficulty in swalowing their food as the early symptom.

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