What are the clinical symptoms of gastric cancer

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Recently, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach. I thought it was caused by indigestion. However, after taking some drugs to help digestion, I didn't get any better. Moreover, my stomach was very painful. As a result, I found out it was a symptom of gastric cancer. Today, let me talk about the clinical symptoms of gastric cancer.

What are the clinical symptoms of gastric cancer

Symptom 1: the early symptoms of gastric cancer are: epigastric pain, epigastric discomfort, stomach tightness, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, often pantothenic acid, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, belching or black stool and other symptoms. A few patients have no obvious digestive system symptoms, but may have unexplained weight loss, emaciation and fatigue. However, to make a definite diagnosis, gastroscopy is still needed.

Symptom 2: 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.

Symptom 3: persistent abdominal pain often indicates that the tumor extends beyond the gastric wall, such as supraclavicular lymph node enlargement, ascites, jaundice, abdominal mass, rectocele palpation and mass, etc. Anemia, emaciation, malnutrition and even cachexia often appear in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

matters needing attention

Got gastric cancer will appear a variety of symptoms, but some symptoms are not very obvious, if you do not pay attention to observation, it is difficult to find, with the development of the disease, some patients have mild nonspecific dyspepsia symptoms, but it is difficult to blame gastric cancer, some symptoms are also common in gastric ulcer.