Gastric cancer is epithelial carcinogenesis from gastric mucosa, and there are also neuroendocrine tumors (or cancers, which are different from gastric cancer and have different cell sources) from mucosa or submucosa.
There is also gastric lymphoma, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from gastric cancer. Even if biopsy is done, sometimes pathological reports will report "poorly differentiated cancer". At this time, it can not be arbitrarily considered as gastric cancer, and further immunohistochemistry is needed to determine whether it is gastric adenocarcinoma or lymphoma.
This differentiation is important because the treatment of gastric cancer and lymphoma is very different. Gastric cancer is mainly surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. However, chemotherapy is the main treatment for gastric lymphoma, supplemented by surgery. Surgery should only be considered if there is bleeding or perforation, or if surgical resection and chemotherapy are ineffective. The fact is that most gastric lymphoma can be cured or nearly cured by chemotherapy.
The above gastroscope is a means to diagnose gastric cancer. Are there any other symptoms or signs suggesting that you may have stomach cancer? Of course, I've thought about it. Early symptoms are atypical and nonspecific. It is often difficult to distinguish it from ordinary stomach diseases, but in the middle and late stages, the feeling of fullness in the upper abdomen will gradually appear, especially after eating, some patients will have choking symptoms, black stool or hematemesis, and some patients may have obvious emaciation. A emaciated patient may touch an upper abdominal tumor or include it. Pain mostly occurs in severe patients, and late patients have peritoneal metastasis, which can lead to ascites, abdominal distension and abdominal distension.
If you want to find gastric cancer early, you basically need to rely on gastroscopy. Generally speaking, gastroscopy is more necessary for patients with family history of tumor, long-term gastropathy or history of gastric polyp or gastric surgery.
Traditional Chinese medicine uses pure Chinese medicine to treat patients, which will not cause any side effects, and can also help patients adjust their physical symptoms. Acupoint catgut embedding in traditional Chinese medicine is to select acupoints according to the type, period and current main symptoms of tumors, implant special medicine bags into acupoints through surgery, and supplement symptoms through symptomatic treatment, so as to achieve the purpose of treating both the symptoms and root causes, help patients eliminate tumors in clinic, control their spread and metastasis, and also have the functions of rapid and long-term analgesia and enhancing immunity.