Is gastric cancer a serious disease? Can you find it early and avoid it? The answer is, of course, how should we avoid the symptoms of gastric cancer? The following is an expert's explanation about gastric cancer.
What are the symptoms of gastric cancer? ?
Early gastric cancer, without any signs, middle and late gastric cancer, the most common sign is abdominal tenderness. One third of the patients have a lump in the upper abdomen, which is firm, irregular and tender. Whether the abdominal mass can be found is related to the location and size of the cancer and the thickness of the patient's abdominal wall. Gastric antrum cancer is more common in abdomen and abdominal masses. According to the pathogenesis, the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer can be divided into four aspects.
The first aspect of
Energy consumption and metabolic disorder caused by cancer spread lead to low resistance, malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, which are manifested as fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, weight loss, anemia, edema, fever, constipation, dry skin and alopecia.
The second aspect
Gastric cancer ulcer causes epigastric pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, perforation, etc. Stomach cancer pain is often bitten, and it has nothing to do with eating or getting worse after eating. Some pains like peptic ulcer can be relieved by eating or antacids, which can last for a long time, and the pain will gradually increase and last. Cancer bleeding is characterized by positive stool occult blood test, hematemesis or black stool, and 5% patients have massive bleeding, even those patients who are treated for the first time because of acute abdomen such as gastric cancer bleeding or perforation.
The third aspect
Symptoms caused by the spread of cancer, such as ascites, hepatomegaly, jaundice and metastasis of lung, brain, heart, prostate, ovary and bone marrow.
The fourth aspect
Symptoms caused by mechanical effects of gastric cancer, such as fullness, heaviness, tasteless, loss of appetite, pain, nausea, vomiting, etc. Gastric cancer located near cardia can invade esophagus, causing cough and dysphagia, and located near pylorus can cause pyloric obstruction.
Cancer is terrible, but we must keep an optimistic attitude. Early detection and early treatment.
Finally, I wish you all stay away from diseases and have a healthy body! Bian Xiao will continue to bring you health tips, so please pay more attention to me.