What are the symptoms of gastric cancer

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Gastric cancer is a very terrible disease, and the harm to patients is also very great. My uncle suffers from gastric cancer, which often leads to gastric bleeding in daily life. Sometimes, he feels unbearable abdominal pain. After going to the hospital for examination, he found that it is caused by this disease. Now I will tell you about the symptoms of gastric cancer Everybody.

What are the symptoms of gastric cancer

First, 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.

Second, 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.

Third: can appear pain, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, incontinence and other symptoms. It is suggested that the patients should go to the oncology department of a regular hospital, improve the examination items, actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, the first choice is surgery, supplemented by radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other adjuvant treatment.

matters needing attention

Special attention should be paid to the dietary habits of patients with gastric cancer, such as eating too fast, too hot, and not easy to be full or hungry. No alcohol, no smoking. Patients with chronic stomach disease should be treated in time, and gastroscopy or X-ray gastroscopy should be carried out regularly. General survey and treatment of gastric cancer and precancerous lesions were carried out in high-risk areas and high-risk groups.