Three typical symptoms of gastric cancer?

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Gastric cancer ranks first among all kinds of malignant tumors in China. There are obvious regional differences in the incidence of gastric cancer. The incidence rate of gastric cancer is higher in the northwest and east coastal areas of China than in the south. Good hair age is in 50 years old above, is gastric cancer typical 3 big symptom? Let's take a look

Three typical symptoms of gastric cancer?

First performance: epigastric pain and discomfort, 80% of gastric cancer patients have symptoms of stomach pain in the early stage of onset. At the beginning, they just feel discomfort in the upper abdomen or swelling, heaviness, and dull pain. They are often mistaken for gastritis or ulcer by patients, and the symptoms can be temporarily relieved after treatment. But most patients will continue to increase the degree of pain, from hunger pain or postprandial pain similar to ulcer disease, also known as rhythmic pain, to continuous irregular pain. Therefore, we must be alert to gastric pain, which is an early signal of gastric cancer, especially for people over 40 years old. Gastroscopy should be done in time to make a definite diagnosis.

The second manifestation: anorexia, emaciation and fatigue. One third of the patients have anorexia, emaciation and fatigue, which is also a common and lack of specific signal of gastric cancer. Loss of appetite without stomach pain may be an early manifestation of gastric cancer, especially when accompanied with stomach pain and excluding hepatitis. Some patients with abdominal distension, belching and other symptoms after eating will automatically limit their daily diet, or tumor makes the body metabolic decomposition is greater than synthesis, resulting in weight loss, emaciation, fatigue phenomenon.

Third performance: nausea and vomiting, hematemesis, hematochezia, nausea and vomiting, hematemesis, hematochezia also need to pay attention to. Gastric cancer patients may also have a sense of fullness after eating, accompanied by mild nausea. The tumor of cardia can begin to have eating disorder, and then gradually appear dysphagia and food reflux and other symptoms. Pyloric obstruction can also appear abdominal distension and vomiting, and even vomit food overnight. Gastric cancer also often has the symptom of bloody stool, which is caused by the lesion destroying the small blood vessels under the gastric mucosa or muscle layer. Patients with a small amount of intragastric bleeding can show positive fecal occult blood, while patients with a large amount of bleeding can show hematemesis and melena. The elderly people who have no stomach disease on weekdays should be on guard against gastric cancer once they have melena. The patients with these manifestations should be examined as soon as possible.

matters needing attention

Bad eating habits, such as irregular diet, overeating, eating too fast and too hot, eating too hard food and so on, can cause damaging stimulation to the stomach and lay a hidden danger for the occurrence of gastric cancer. Therefore, to develop good eating habits is the basis for the prevention of gastric cancer.