Symptoms of advanced gastric cancer

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The reason for my aunt's work is that she has been living alone in other places for a long time. As a result, her stomach has been bad all the time. If she eats a little food, she will have severe pain. She doesn't take it seriously, but the pain has not been reduced. She went to the hospital and got gastric cancer, and it is in the middle and late stage. Through a series of hospital treatment, the current situation is much better. By accompanying her to treatment and taking care of her, I have learned a lot about advanced gastric cancer. Now I would like to share with you the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer.

Symptoms of advanced gastric cancer

First, most patients with early gastric cancer have no obvious symptoms, and a few have nausea, vomiting or upper gastrointestinal symptoms similar to ulcer disease. Pain and weight loss are the most common clinical symptoms of advanced gastric cancer. Patients often have more specific upper gastrointestinal symptoms, such as abdominal discomfort, fullness after eating, with the progress of the disease, upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fatigue.

Second, according to the location of the tumor, there are also special manifestations. Gastric cancer of cardia and fundus may have retrosternal pain and progressive dysphagia; gastric cancer near pylorus may have pylorus obstruction; gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms such as hematemesis and melena may occur after tumor destroys blood vessels. Persistent abdominal pain often indicates tumor expansion beyond the gastric wall, such as supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, ascites, jaundice, abdominal mass, anterior rectal fossa and mass.

Third: can appear pain, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, incontinence and other symptoms. It is suggested that the patients should go to the oncology department of a regular hospital, improve the examination items, actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, the first choice is surgery, supplemented by radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other adjuvant treatment.

matters needing attention

Special attention should be paid to the dietary habits of patients with gastric cancer, such as eating too fast, too hot, and not easy to be full or hungry. No alcohol, no smoking. Patients with chronic stomach disease should be treated in time, and gastroscopy or X-ray gastroscopy should be carried out regularly. General survey and treatment of gastric cancer and precancerous lesions were carried out in high-risk areas and high-risk groups.