The tumour of an esophagus - is usually diagnosed in the age of 55 years and is more senior, at men in 3 times more often, than at women. The basic histological form - a planocellular tumour. Malignant tumours are preceded with chronic esophagites, round ulcers, chemical and thermal combustions. Etiological value the regular use of very hot nutrition, microcombustions and have also microtraumas of an esophagus, influence of alcohol, a disadvantage of vitamin A and vitamin C.

The tumour of an esophagus can be ulcerative, warty papillomatous. More often tumours are localized in an average third of esophagus (60 %), then in the bottom third (30 %), most less often - in a cervical department. Signs: a dysphagia (all over again there are difficulties at a swallowing of firm nutrition, then semifluid and liquid; the dysphagia progresses continuously), a pain (also during a swallowing), salivation (more often at the top cervical and top thoracal localization of a cancer), growing thin and a deaquation.