Question 454 · LEK · Esophageal cancer
The most typical symptoms of oesophageal cancer include:
- A. gastro-intestinal bleeding.
- B. chest pain.
- C. hoarseness.
- D. odynophagia.
- E. painless dysphagia.
Hint
Think how a growing intraluminal tumour gradually narrows the oesophagus and what the patient first notices while eating.
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