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Early symptoms of gastric cancer

BY Berton Gladstone 2020-06-05

  The stomach is an important organ for us to digest and absorb food, so we must pay attention to protecting our stomach health in daily life, and it is very necessary to develop good eating habits. What about the early symptoms of gastric cancer in life?

  Early symptoms of gastric cancer

  (1), upper abdominal discomfort and fullness

  Early symptoms of gastric cancer usually have abdominal burning, noisy and fullness. These symptoms will generally increase after a meal, and the more serious the symptoms, the more obvious the symptoms.

   These symptoms should be distinguished from indigestion and chronic gastritis. Dyspepsia often has a history of careless eating and overeating, and chronic gastritis often has a history of recurrent episodes.

  (2), loss of appetite

  Early gastric cancer is often a sudden manifestation of loss of appetite and greasiness. This should be distinguished from hepatitis. Hepatitis often has systemic symptoms such as elevated transaminase, fever, fatigue, yellow urine, dark brown, jaundice, and so on.

  (3), nausea, belching, acid reflux and vomiting

  gastric cancer-associated gastrointestinal lesions in the pylorus at the exit of the stomach can cause nausea and symptoms Obviously, it directly affects the normal life of the patient.

  If the stomach outlet is completely blocked, a sour or egg odor will be emitted, or vomiting will occur. Most of the vomits are food and gastric juices.

  (4), Pain in the upper abdomen

  The pain of early gastric cancer is irregular, or it shows persistent pain, not as obvious as gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer Characteristics of pain after a meal or pain before a meal.

  If the patient originally had stomach and duodenal ulcer disease, the regularity of pain may suddenly change, and the original effective drug for the treatment of ulcer disease suddenly becomes ineffective or the effect is significantly reduced.

  (5), hematemesis and black stools

  When cancer destroys a patient’s small blood vessels, there is usually a phenomenon of "occult blood" in the stool, and the appearance of the stool is normal. There are blood cells.

  If large blood vessels are invaded early, it will cause hematemesis, and the stool will become dark or tarry.

  Occult blood and black stools of gastric cancer are persistent and stubborn, while the bleeding caused by gastric and duodenal ulcers are mostly intermittent, and can be stopped after timely treatment.

  (6), rapid weight loss and severe anemia

  Because cancer is a wasting disease, and gastric cancer causes patients with poor digestion and absorption and gastrointestinal bleeding, which makes weight loss and weight loss even worse. anemia.

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