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How can i tell whether i have esophagitis or esophageal cancer?
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Biopsy: Biopsy during fiberoptic endoscopy is the cold standard to distinguish between esophagitis and esophageal cancer.
Answered 1/15/2015
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Esophagoscopy: Esophagitis can be symptomatic or silent, esophageal cancer rarely causes symptoms until it is bulky enough to cause swallowing problems. Esophagoscopy can differentiate between the two with biopsies needed to exclude cancer.
Answered 12/9/2013
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