What are the symptoms of gastric cancer in early and middle stage?
summary
The choice of treatment hospital and treatment method for gastric cancer is very important. Although there is no good early treatment in this period, as long as patients can adhere to the treatment, there is still a chance of cure, but before treatment, the majority of patients need to understand gastric cancer, which is helpful for treatment. So, what are the symptoms of gastric cancer in the early and middle stages? Let's talk about it.
What are the symptoms of gastric cancer in early and middle stage?
1. It is similar to peptic ulcer pain, and has no obvious relationship with eating. Generally, it can be relieved after eating. There may also be a sense of abdominal fullness, anorexia, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, emaciation, anemia, edema, fever and other manifestations, such as sub xiphoid or retrosternal pain, with eating obstruction or dysphagia.
2. With the increasing of the tumor, necrosis and ulceration occur, leading to upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hematemesis and melena appear when the tumor surface ulcers, and the tumor infiltration extends to the cardia, causing dysphagia.
3. Severe cases will cause metastasis. The medium-term metastatic foci of gastric cancer can be transferred to liver, lung, brain, pancreas, transverse colon, bone, skin, ovary, etc. through lymphatic metastasis and blood circulation. Enlarged lymph nodes can be found in the left supraclavicular fossa and axillary, or ascites, jaundice, hepatomegaly, rectal tumor and other symptoms can be found.
matters needing attention
There is little sign change in the early stage of gastric cancer, so we should not ignore it just because there is no sign, and we should pay more attention to the above early symptoms or signals.