Symptoms and precursors of gastric cancer

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Half a year after my husband and I got married, he was diagnosed with gastric cancer. I was just pregnant with a child. Now I am very disheartened. I love him very much and let him go to the hospital for good treatment. Now his condition has been controlled to a certain extent. For the symptoms and precursors of gastric cancer, let me tell you.

Symptoms and precursors of 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

Patients may have malnutrition, and the intake of nutrition can not meet the needs of the body. This situation is mainly due to the high metabolism of malignant tumor, the decline of gastrointestinal function and insufficient nutrition intake. In view of the malnutrition of patients, medical staff and their families should pay attention to adding more nutritious food to patients' diet, timely supplement the required nutrition, improve the nutritional status, and improve patients' ability to tolerate surgery.