How to distinguish the early symptoms of gastric cancer?

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In China, the incidence and mortality of gastric cancer are high, which may be related to the lack of early symptoms. Because many patients take the symptoms of gastric cancer as gastritis and delay the best treatment opportunity. So how to distinguish the early symptoms of gastric cancer? Let's talk about it.

How to distinguish the early symptoms of gastric cancer?

1. Upper abdominal pain. About 1 / 4 of the patients have the same pain pattern as peptic ulcer, while the elderly are insensitive to pain, most of them are abdominal distension, and upper abdominal pain accounts for about 30% to 70%. If the above-mentioned abdominal pain often recur, or remission is getting shorter and shorter, we should be alert.

2. Sense of fullness in upper abdomen. It is often the earliest symptom of gastric cancer in the elderly, sometimes accompanied by belching, acid reflux, and even nausea and vomiting. If the cancer is located at the entrance of the stomach, you can feel that eating is not unobstructed; If the cancer is located at the outlet of the stomach, pylorus (outlet) obstruction occurs, the patient may vomit rotten overnight food.

3. Loss of appetite, emaciation and fatigue. According to statistics, about 50% of the elderly patients have obvious loss of appetite, increasing emaciation, fatigue, about 40% to 60% of the patients are due to emaciation to see a doctor. If accompanied by upper abdominal pain, and can rule out hepatitis, more attention should be paid.

matters needing attention

There is little sign change in the early stage of gastric cancer, so we should not ignore it just because there is no sign, and we should pay more attention to the above early symptoms or signals.