Difficulty swallowing and heartburn are signs of one of the deadliest cancers that kills more than 50% of people within a year of diagnosis.
Oesophageal cancers form from the lining of the oesophagus - the food pipe connecting your mouth with yours stomach - causing it to narrow as the cancer grows, according to Guts UK Charity. The 14th most common cancer in adults, roughly 9,300 people are diagnosed with it in the UK each year, according to Cancer Research UK.
Every year, around 8,000 people die from the disease. When it's caught early, in stage one, just more than half of people live more than five years after diagnosis, according to the charity. So few people survive the cancer at stage four, the Office for National Statistics doesn't publish a five-year survival rate.
