What are the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer

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Uncle is a patient with gastric cancer, and his condition has deteriorated recently. He went to the hospital for examination and found that he has entered the advanced stage. Now he still insists on radiotherapy, and his body often feels uncomfortable. Let me talk about the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer.

What are the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer

First: pain. Pain is one of the most common symptoms of advanced gastric cancer, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients. The pain is mainly located in the heart socket, sometimes only in the upper abdomen. The more typical pain is pain and irregular, and eating does not relieve. When the clinical pain continues to increase and radiation to the back, it is often the symptoms of cancer involving the pancreas.

Second: nausea and vomiting. Gastric cancer is one of the common symptoms of patients with advanced gastric cancer, because most of the gastric cancer is located in the pyloric sinus, so pyloric obstruction symptoms are quite common. Atypical early obstruction can cause post food swelling, mild nausea and nausea, while typical mechanical pyloric obstruction can cause gastric dilatation and vomiting. Vomitus is mostly overnight food that stays in the stomach for a long time, so it has a rotten sour smell. Diffuse gastric cancer often has no symptoms of obstruction and vomiting.

Third: emaciation, anemia, loss of appetite. According to the statistics of relevant experts, about 90% of the patients suffer from weight loss, which is often more than 3kg before attention is paid. Then progressive weight loss is more obvious, and some can reach more than 5kg. Experts also found that about half of the patients had anemia, limb weakness and other symptoms. Sometimes these are also the first symptoms of gastric cancer. Many patients are tired of greasy food and have no appetite, or automatically limit their diet after meals due to fullness, discomfort, warm air, etc. they are obviously emaciated, accompanied by fatigue and anemia one after another, and eventually develop into cachexia.

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The condition of patients with advanced gastric cancer has deteriorated to the extreme, and their clinical symptoms are extremely complex. Generally speaking, patients tend to feel more pain, and have nausea and vomiting symptoms, and people will become extremely thin and lose weight.