Symptoms of Esophagus Cancer
Symptoms of Esophagus Cancer
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Laryngeal cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
In intrinsic laryngeal cancer, the dominant and earliest symptom is hoarseness that persists longer than 3 weeks; in extrinsic cancer, it's a lump in the throat or pain or burning in the throat when drinking citrus juice or hot liquid. Later clinical effects of metastasis include dysphagia, dyspnea, cough, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, and pain radiating to the ear.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Esophageal cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Dysphagia and weight loss are the most common presenting symptoms. Dysphagia is mild and intermittent at first, but it soon becomes constant. Pain, hoarseness, coughing, and esophageal obstruction follow. Cachexia usually develops.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Malignant spinal neoplasms:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Extramedullary tumors produce symptoms by pressing on nerve roots, the spinal cord, and spinal vessels; intramedullary tumors, by destroying the parenchyma and compressing adjacent areas. Because intramedullary tumors may extend over several spinal cord segments, their symptoms are more variable than those of extramedullary tumors.
The following clinical effects are likely with all malignant spinal cord neoplasms:
❑Pain — Most severe directly over the tumor, radiates around the trunk or down the limb on the affected side and is unrelieved by bed rest. It may worsen when lying down or with straining, coughing, or sneezing. Pain can be diffuse, occurring over all extremities. Generally, it progressively worsens and isn't relieved by medication.
❑ Motor symptoms — Asymmetric spastic muscle weakness, decreased muscle tone, exaggerated reflexes, and a positive Babinski's sign. If the tumor is at the level of the cauda equina, muscle flaccidity, muscle wasting, weakness, and progressive diminution in tendon reflexes are characteristic.
❑ Sensory deficits — Contralateral loss of pain, temperature, and touch sensation (Brown-Séquard's syndrome). These losses are less obvious to the patient than functional motor changes. Caudal lesions invariably produce paresthesias in the nerve distribution pathway of the involved roots.
❑Bowel and bladder symptoms — Urine retention is an inevitable late sign with cord compression. Early signs include incomplete emptying or difficulty with the urine stream, which is usually unnoticed or ignored. Cauda equina tumors cause bladder and bowel incontinence due to flaccid paralysis.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Esophageal diverticula:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Midesophageal and epiphrenic diverticula with an associated motor disturbance (achalasia or spasm) seldom produce symptoms, although the patient may experience dysphagia and heartburn. Zenker’s diverticulum, however, produces distinctly staged symptoms, beginning with initial throat irritation followed by dysphagia and near-complete obstruction. In early stages, regurgitation occurs soon after eating; in later stages, regurgitation after eating is delayed and may even occur during sleep, leading to food aspiration and pulmonary infection.
ELDER TIP Hoarseness, asthma, and pneumonitis may be the only signs of esophageal diverticula in elderly patients.
Other signs and symptoms include noise when liquids are swallowed, chronic cough, hoarseness, a bad taste in the mouth or foul breath and, rarely, bleeding.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Laryngeal cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
With intrinsic laryngeal cancer, the dominant and earliest indication is hoarseness that persists longer than 3 weeks; with extrinsic cancer, it’s a lump in the throat or pain or burning in the throat when drinking citrus juice or hot liquid. Later signs and symptoms of metastasis include dysphagia, dyspnea, cough, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, and pain radiating to the ear.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Esophageal cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Patients are usually asymptomatic until they’re far advanced in the disease. Dysphagia and weight loss are the most common presenting symptoms. Dysphagia is mild and intermittent at first, but it soon becomes constant. Pain, hoarseness, coughing, and esophageal obstruction follow. Cachexia usually develops.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Esophageal diverticula:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Traction and epiphrenic diverticula with an associated motor disturbance (achalasia or spasm) seldom produce symptoms but may cause dysphagia, heartburn, and regurgitation from associated esophageal conditions, such as hiatal hernia, diffuse esophageal spasm, achalasia, reflux esophagitis, and cancer. Zenker’s diverticulum produces distinctly staged symptoms: initially, throat irritation and, later, dysphagia and near-complete obstruction.
In early stages, regurgitation occurs soon after eating; in later stages, regurgitation after eating is delayed and may even occur during sleep, leading to food aspiration and pulmonary infection. Other symptoms include noise when liquids are swallowed, chronic cough, hoarseness, a bad taste in the mouth, and halitosis.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Eosinophilic Esophagitis:
Eosinophilic Esophagitis - signs & symptoms
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Vomiting
- Regurgitation
- Dysphagia
- Nausea
- Epigastric pain
- Heartburn
- Chest pain
- Esophageal food impaction
- Irritability/Feeding difficulties
- Nighttime cough
- Other complications that can occur with EE include failure to thrive, malnutrition, feeding intolerance, esophageal strictures, hiatal hernia, small caliber esophagus and esophageal perforation. Esophageal fungal or viral superinfection may also occur. Any patient who is being considered for surgical correction of gastroesophageal reflux (fundoplication) should first be evaluated endoscopically for EE to prevent unnecessary surgery.
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
Article Excerpts About Symptoms of Esophagus Cancer:
Early esophageal cancer usually does not cause symptoms.
However, as the cancer grows, symptoms may include:
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Difficult or painful swallowing
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Severe weight loss
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Pain in the throat or back, behind the breastbone or
between the shoulder blades
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Hoarseness or chronic cough
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Vomiting
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Coughing up blood
(Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer of the Esophagus: NCI)
Esophagus Cancer as a Cause of Symptoms or Medical Conditions
When considering symptoms of Esophagus Cancer, it is also important to consider Esophagus Cancer as a possible cause of other medical conditions.
The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Esophagus Cancer may cause:
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The symptom information on this page
attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Esophagus Cancer.
This signs and symptoms information for Esophagus Cancer has been gathered from various sources,
may not be fully accurate,
and may not be the full list of Esophagus Cancer signs or Esophagus Cancer symptoms.
Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Esophagus Cancer may vary on an individual basis for each patient.
Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they
are indeed Esophagus Cancer symptoms.
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