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Esophageal Cancer

Esophageal Cancer Introduction
Esophageal Cancer Treatment
Esophageal Cancer Symptoms
Esophageal Cancer Diagnosis
Esophageal Cancer Staging

Treating esophageal cancer in St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou

In St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, we provide esophageal cancer patients with 18 advanced anticancer technologies and high quality services, and we will try our best to help them improve their living quality, relieve their pain and prolong their survival time. The MDT (Multidisciplinary Team) of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou will make therapeutic plan for esophageal cancer patients based on their condition. Combining minimally invasive therapies with historic traditional Chinese medicine, esophageal cancer patients can avoid the suffering of traditional operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Meanwhile, experts will monitor the whole treatment, and adjust timely to improve the efficacy.

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What is esophageal cancer?

Esophageal cancer is a common gastrointestinal tumor, and about 300,000 people die of esophageal cancer every year worldwide. Typical symptoms of esophageal cancer are progressive dysphagia, with difficulty in swallowing dry food, semi-liquid food, and finally water and saliva. Data from the World Cancer Report indicate that 572,000 people were newly diagnosed with esophageal cancer and 509,000 died from esophageal cancer in 2018.

So can middle and late-staged esophageal cancer be cured? Minimally invasive techniques with little side effects and trauma can help bladder cancer patients avoid surgical resection, avoid suffering from traditional radiotherapy, and effectively prolong the survival period.

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Esophageal Cancer Traditional Treatment Methods

Surgical treatmentSurgery to remove cancerous tissue and clean cervical lymph nodes that may have metastasis.
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy for follicular adenocarcinoma.
chemotherapyOften used as palliative therapy for inoperable or distantly metastatic advanced cancer.
Chinese treatmentTraditional Chinese medicine therapy can inhibit the development of cancer, improve the immune function of patients with thyroid cancer, and reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Esophageal Cancer Treatment Technology

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Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.　Under the guidance of image,...

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DEB-TACE

Drug-eluting bead transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) is an interventional therapy used in tumor treatment. It is a tiny sphere made of polymers or ceramics with a certain range of siz...

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Particle Knife

Particle knife (also called 125I Seed Implants) is applied to a variety of primary and metastatic tumors nowadays. 125I seeds are some small iodine radioactive particles that can give off short-range γ...

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Nanoknife Technology

Nanoknife is a brand-new cutting-edge ablation technology for tumor treatment. It breaks the membrane of tumor cells with high voltage pulses from electrode probes, resulting in multiple irreversible n...

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Combined Knife

Combined Knife, it’s not actual surgical knife, but a composite cryogenic freezing surgical system, which conduct cold and heat ablation treatment with liquid-nitrogen by one or more ablation needles...

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Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy, also named cryosurgery therapy or cryoablation, is a medical technique both ancient and modern....

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Interventional Therapy

Interventional therapy is a mini-invasive therapy performed under the guidance of medical imaging equipments. With a 1-2 millimeter incision, paracentesis can be performed with the lead of medical imag...

Esophageal Cancer Patients' Story

They come from different countries around the world, but they have experienced the same experience and endured the pain that cancer has brought to them. However, now, with the effective treatment and meticulous care of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, they have rekindled their confidence in life and become anti-cancer fighters. Here, they share their anti-cancer experience, love and warmth with everyone.

Lung Cancer: Phuong Linh Nhi; Vietnammore than 3 years

Breast Cancer: Noraini; Malaysiamore than 5 years

lymphoma: Ina; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

rectal cancer: Nguyen Van Thanh; VietnamSurvive for more than 4 years

cervical cancer: Wei Ji; Indonesia

Esophageal cancer: PHAM DUC VIEN; VietnamSurvive for more than 2 years

Liver Cancer: Kaisone; LaosSurvive for 5 years

nasopharyngeal cancer: Mr. Tsang; Indonesia

Lung cancer: Ramli Rukiana; Indonesia

Lung Cancer: Ms. LEONG; MalaysiaMore than 1 year

MDT TEAM

: Pan Xiaofeng; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Attending Physician

: Zhai Xueli; Attending Physician,Oncology Department | Attending Physician

: Pan Xin; Resident physician, Oncology Department | Resident physician

: Qin Yubing; Attending physician ,Oncology Department | Attending physician

: Tan Chunyan; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: AGILA ADNAN; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: Shen Shiheng; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Zhao Yifan; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Dong Kui; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Oncologist

: Ma Yumei; Physician-in-Charge | Oncologist

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Esophageal Cancer Symptoms

What are the symptoms of esophageal cancer?

Early symptoms of esophageal cancer are not obvious. Nearly half of the esophageal cancer patients have found metastatic cancer when they were diagnosed. And the survival rate after surgery is only 25-40%.Therefore, knowing well of esophageal cancer is helpful for early detection and survival rate improvements.

The followings are some signs of esophageal cancer:

Foreign substance sensation in the esophagus, choking sense when swallowing;

Burning, needling or dragging sensation of chest bone when swallowing;

Impossible feeding (not able to eat) and companied with vomiting, upper abdominal pain, weight loss;

Obvious malnutrition, cachexia etc.

To one’s attention, the above-mentioned symptoms are not only for esophageal cancer, and may also refer to other diseases. No matter what situation it is, go to standardized hospital for related examination and diagnosis.

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Esophageal Cancer Diagnosis

What methods can be applied for diagnosis?

Fiberendoscopy: it is widely used for examining digestive tract disease;

Digestive tract endoscopic ultrasonography: it can detect the depth of the lesion’s invading extent to the esophageal wall; measure the abnormally enlarged lymph node outside esophageal wall etc.

X-ray barium meal examination: it can detect the lesion position, the length and the obstruction condition; meanwhile, it can also confirm if cancer cells have invaded outward of the esophagus or not;

CT examination: CT scan can clearly indicate the relation between the esophagus and adjacent mediastinum, but it can hardly detect early esophageal cancer. Combining CT with X-ray examination is very helpful for diagnosing esophageal cancer.

Esophageal exfoliative cytology examination:easy and convenient, causing little pain, it is the prime method for the diagnosis of esophageal cancer.

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Esophageal Cancer Staging

Stages of esophageal cancer

Stage 0: early stage esophageal cancer, it is also called primary esophageal cancer whose cancer cell is just limited to esophageal cuticular layer, without any malignancy changes or invasion to other lymph nodes and organs; so the other surrounding tissues are still normal, in this stage.

Stage I: malignant cells have already invaded into other tissues underneath the cuticular layer. It emerged in the lamina propia or mucous membrane substratum, but had not invaded into the muscle layer yet. Cancer cells won’t spread to lymph node or other organ in this stage, either;

Stage II: cancer cells have invaded into lymph nodes but not into other distant organs;

Stage III:esophageal cancer has invaded to the adjacent tracheas but still no distant metastasis occurs;

Stage IV: esophageal cancer has transferred to many other distant organs through blood circulation, like liver, bone, or even head.

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