Symptoms and medication of gastric cancer

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Some time ago, my friend's father found out that he suffered from gastric cancer. In his daily life, he often coughed up blood. The harm of gastric cancer to patients is also relatively serious. Patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible. Now I will tell you about the symptoms and medication of gastric cancer.

Symptoms and medication 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

Gastric cancer patients should be according to the operation situation, according to the doctor's advice, in principle, should choose easy to digest food. Can choose high protein, high heat, low carbohydrate, less residue food, but also pay attention to supplement a variety of vitamins and iron, potassium, sodium, chlorine and so on. Eat less and eat more, and avoid overeating.