Get CXR first: You have to see a primary care physician and get CXR because of cough with bloody sputum. If you have problems with swallowing you have to get upper endoscopy to rule out esophageal cancer or esophagitis.
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Barium swallow: Barium swallow may miss esophageal cancer. Upper endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosis. Coughing up blood is not a characteristic symptom of esophageal cancer but an examination of the mouth, posterior nasal area and throat as well as a tracheal,bronchial and lung evaluation if coughing up blood occurs.
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