Symptoms of gastric cancer

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There is a classmate in my university club. A 22-year-old girl was diagnosed with gastric cancer a few days ago. When I went to the hospital to see her, I learned that there are many kinds of symptoms of gastric cancer. And during this kick, if someone has gastric cancer, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as gastritis. Then I asked the doctor what are the symptoms of gastric cancer. Let me share with you what are the symptoms of gastric cancer.

Symptoms of gastric cancer

Symptom 1: 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. 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. In the early stage, if you suffer from gastric cancer, it may have the same symptoms as gastric ulcer, so if you have symptoms of gastric ulcer, you must go to the hospital for treatment.

Symptom 2: fatigue, emaciation and anemia: This is another group of common and nonspecific early symptoms of gastric cancer. Patients often due to loss of appetite, gastrointestinal bleeding and fatigue, weakness and other manifestations. Black stool or stool occult blood positive: if you do not eat blood tofu, bismuth and other drugs in the case of black stool, you should go to check as soon as possible. If gastric cancer is more serious, there will be no strength in the whole body and gradually lose weight. The most common phenomenon is anemia.

Symptom 3: loss of appetite, belching and other dyspepsia symptoms: the early symptoms of gastric cancer are feeling full after eating and actively limiting diet. The early symptoms of gastric cancer are often accompanied by repeated belching. Epigastric pain: This is the most common symptom of gastric cancer. It begins with intermittent dull pain and is often diagnosed as gastritis or ulcer disease. If you feel your appetite is not good, and if you have symptoms of indigestion, you often feel nausea and vomiting, you must go to the hospital for treatment.

matters needing attention

Some patients may also have melena in the early stage, which is caused by the lesion destroying small blood vessels. The above slight symptoms are often mistaken for chronic gastritis and fail to attract the attention of patients and doctors. Therefore, gastroscopy should be performed in time for those over 40 years old who suddenly have the above symptoms. If you find that you are suffering from gastric cancer, do not give up treatment, you must actively go to the hospital to receive medical treatment, because in clinical medicine, there are many patients with gastric cancer, and they are cured after receiving cooperative treatment. In terms of post-processing, we must nourish our stomach and never eat spicy food.