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Which specialist to diagnose esophagus?

Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Aug 25, 2023 | Replies (13)

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While smoking and drinking and other vices ain't the best for our overall health... not usually a factor in esophageal cancer causation.

The best way to know what the hell is going on in there? Get an endoscopy and have a physical look see! If anything looks amiss... biopsy will be done, further scans... and then even a more sophisticated endoscopy will be done (EUS). It is these 3 things that will lead to a true EC diagnosis and staging. But still... pretty rare that you would have EC. But a simple quick and painless procedure... even easier than a colonoscopy. The only way to be sure what's going on in there. And usually a Barrett's dx and/or dysplasia of some sort will be seen before cancer has developed. Problem is... like most cancers, we don't feel these things and get dx'd early enough at stage 1 or 2. Be well.

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Why would you say that smoking & drinking aren’t a factor in esophageal cancer causation? I’ve read that’s tops on the list, & my doctor said usually the people who get this cancer are men who smoke & drink heavily.