What is cancer of esophagus?

Esophageal cancer refers to esophageal cancer, its treatment methods include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other ways of treatment.

1, surgical treatment

patients in line with the surgical indications should be timely surgical resection of the lesion, if there is metastasis, need to expand the scope of surgery and lymph node dissection as far as possible to eliminate cancer cells, can improve the prognosis of the disease.

2, radiotherapy

esophageal cancer is sensitive to radiation, patients can cooperate with radiotherapy to further kill cancer cells, can improve the surgical effect.

3, chemotherapy

patients can be combined with the use of capecitabine, cisplatin, fluorouracil and other drugs to destroy the cancer cell structure, through long-term treatment can delay the development of the disease.