DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2021.v08i01.007

Pages: 48-51

Esophageal cancer is known to be one of the most commonly affecting disease world wide. People with esophageal cancer develop various symptom. One among those symptoms is esophageal cancer. There are various treatment for esophageal cancer but those treatments were found to have many disadvantages. In recent field of science with various advancements in technology self expanding metal stents (SEMS) and self expanding plastic stents (SEPS) were used. There are various literature stating the uses of other palliative therapy, although it had the same uses it was found to have many disadvantages and are traumatic when compared to SEMS and SEPS. Therefore we conclude that SEMS and SEPS are less traumatic when compared to other palliative treatment.