Symptoms of gastric cancer two or three days before death

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In our country, the diagnosis rate of early gastric cancer is not high, the vast majority of gastric cancer has been diagnosed in the middle and late stage of cancer, leading to low cure rate of gastric cancer. Therefore, mastering the symptoms of gastric cancer two or three days before death is very helpful for family members and doctors to judge the patient's condition. When patients enter the advanced stage of gastric cancer, they usually have one or more of the following conditions. Now let's sort out the symptoms of gastric cancer two or three days before death.

Symptoms of gastric cancer two or three days before death

1. Pain caused by pressing on the upper abdomen. When pressing the patient's upper abdomen, it can be felt that there is obviously hard and fixed mass in the stomach, and the surface of the mass is uneven. A medical examination can show the stomach after significant dilatation.

2. The upper abdomen of patients with advanced gastric cancer is bulging. Gastric cancer may also affect the pancreas, especially when the lymph node metastasis oppresses the common bile duct. If intrahepatic metastasis occurs, through medical examination, it can be observed that the patient's liver is obviously larger, the liver surface is uneven, nodular and hard to touch, and the patient can also have jaundice symptoms at the same time.

3. Women with advanced cancer may also have ovarian metastases. It may also metastasize to the left supraclavicular lymph nodes or bilateral supraclavicular lymph nodes. The symptoms are swelling of distant lymph nodes. If the patient has these signs, it indicates that the patient has entered the advanced stage of gastric cancer, at this time, most patients have lost the chance of radical surgery.

matters needing attention

Gastric cancer before death may also have some other symptoms, such as the most common anorexia in advanced cancer, most of which are caused by cachexia. This situation occurs in more than 50% of patients with late cancer. Patients have a large number of muscle loss and a significant decrease in body fat. At the same time, there were constipation, dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting two or three days before the death of gastric cancer. Patients and their families should be paid attention to.