Cancer

Discomfort or experiencing trouble or pain during food swallowing can be a usual occurrence and most often it could be an indication of eating food or drinking liquids very quickly. But if the trouble with eating or swallowing continues regularly it could be associated with esophageal cancer.

Every person is created to swallow or eat food easily unless and until they are affected by some kind of disease or illness. Some people might find trouble eating food as they might not have properly chewed the food or might be due to the dryness of a specific food substance. The troubled eating might be due to certain difficulty to pass the food from mouth inside stomach. This type of condition is called as dysphagia, mostly experienced by elderly and young kids. It might be noticed that when someone is suffering from bad cough or when unwell swallowing becomes difficult and troubled.

Trouble eating with esophageal cancer is fatal malignancy often which is developed in the hollow esophagus muscular canal tissues. It begins in the inside layers of esophagus lining and starts to grow outwards. Over time it can completely block liquid and food passage making swallowing hard and painful.

During the early stages, sufferers can get hiccups and voice can become hoarse with higher calcium levels, but even the symptoms of esophageal cancer might not be seen till the cancer is in the advanced stage. Doctors if suspect trouble eating with esophageal cancer normally asks the patients to undergo special x-raying or barium swallow to clear their doubts. Even though it might not be cured the symptoms and their intensities can be lowered to a great extent.

Trouble eating and swallowing food can be classified into two main kinds of dysphagia called esophageal dysphagia and oropharyngeal dysphagia. Oropharyngeal dysphagia might be due to the malfunctioning of nerves which are responsible for chewing food and swallowing. In this condition the throat muscles are weakened severely that sufferers find great discomfort and pain during swallowing. Esophageal cancer and neurological disorder or damage might be the main reason for oropharyngeal dysphagia.

If a person feels that food has got stuck inside the throat is known as esophageal dysphagia. This condition might be due to old age where the person's esophagus gets weak like other muscles and results in troubled eating, esophageal ring and stricture – esophagus gets narrowed by various factors and looks similar to a ring and prevents from getting through the esophagus smoothly, GERD or Gastroesophageal reflux disease – causing troubled eating, food can get stuck inside the esophagus resulting in troubled eating, scleroderma – tissues of the person becomes hard or due to treatment of cancer.