What are the clinical manifestations and symptoms of gastric cancer

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Gastric cancer is a more terrible disease, the harm of gastric cancer to patients is also more serious, for patients with gastric cancer should be treated as soon as possible, the early cure rate is relatively high, now I will tell you about the clinical manifestations and symptoms of gastric cancer, which is convenient for you to treat gastric cancer earlier.

What are the clinical manifestations and symptoms of gastric cancer

Symptom 1: more than 70% of early gastric cancer have no symptoms, even those with symptoms are usually atypical. Mild discomfort in the upper abdomen is the most common initial symptom, similar to dyspepsia or gastritis, which is very easy to ignore.

Symptom 2: in the middle and late stage of the disease, there are obvious symptoms caused by persistent upper abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding and cancer metastasis, such as obvious emaciation, anemia, fatigue, loss of appetite, mental atrophy, fever, septic shock and other cachexia symptoms.

Symptom 3: common signs include abdominal mass or metastatic lymph nodes on the left clavicle, limb edema, pericardial effusion, pleural effusion, ascites, jaundice, hepatomegaly caused by cancer cell metastasis, and irreversible malignant malnutrition eventually leads to multiple organ failure.

matters needing attention

Patients with gastric cancer should have a positive and optimistic attitude to face the treatment of this disease, and actively cooperate with the treatment. Most patients with advanced gastric cancer have obvious epigastric tenderness, some patients can touch the mass in the abdomen, left supraclavicular lymph node enlargement and ascites suggest that they have distant metastasis, and the final stage is severe cachexia.