Swallowing difficulties and heartburn are two of the signs of one of the more fatal cancers that kills over half of those diagnosed within a year, Liverpool Echo reports. Cancers of the oesophagus - the food pipe connecting your mouth with your stomach - cause it to narrow as the cancer grows, according to Guts UK Charity.
It is the 14th most common cancer in adults, with roughly 9,300 people diagnosed with it in the UK every year according to Cancer Research UK. Around 8,000 people die from the disease annually.
When caught early, in stage one, over half of people live over five years after the diagnosis, according to the charity. Few survive the cancer when diagnosed at stage four, so the Office for National Statistics do not publish a five-year survival rate.
