In recent years, affected by changes in living and eating habits in the mainland, increased pressure on work and life, more and more people have begun to be plagued by chronic stomach diseases, such as gastric ulcers, chronic gastritis, etc., which are more common stomach diseases.
Not only that, in recent years, the incidence of future diseases has also continued to rise, and it has become the second largest type of gastrointestinal cancer after colorectal cancer!
Moreover, although the incidence rate of gastric cancer is not as high as that of bowel cancer, it is affected by the inepical early symptoms of gastric cancer and the extreme similarity with chronic gastric disease, and the early diagnosis rate of gastric cancer is quite low;
Among the more than 400,000 gastric cancer patients diagnosed every year, only a small part is still in the early stage, and more than 2/3 of the patients are diagnosed in the advanced stage, so the overall prognosis of stomach cancer in mainland China is extremely poor, and its mortality rate ranks first in the malignant tumors of the digestive tract.
However, stomach cancer is the same as other cancer types, and the more it is detected and treated aggressively, the better the prognosis will be.
Therefore, in daily life, we also need to understand more about the symptoms and manifestations of stomach cancer. If you have recently had the following symptoms repeatedly, beware of the sign that the stomach has become cancerous:
1. Irregular stomach pain: Most of the pain caused by ordinary chronic stomach diseases actually has a certain regularity. For example, the high incidence of stomach ulcers in the mainland basically begins about 1 hour after a meal, until it gradually eases after the next meal.
Stomach cancer is not the same, pain is the most common clinical manifestation of gastric cancer, in the initial stage is mostly manifested as irregular paroxysmal abdominal pain, such as dull pain, swelling pain, tingling, etc., and then the pain will gradually worsen with the development of the disease.
If the patient has cardia and gastric base cancer, it will also be accompanied by pain in the back of the sternum;
2. Dyspepsia: In addition to stomach pain, patients often have indigestion, which is mainly because of the decline in gastric function, gastric volume reduction, and gastric peristalsis disorders caused by the development of gastric cancer.
Patients initially present with heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux. After that, with the gradual deterioration of gastric motility, patients may have symptoms such as bloating, belching, nausea and vomiting;
3, weight loss: the stomach is one of the most important digestive organs, when the patient has stomach cancer, it will be accompanied by a more clear upper gastrointestinal symptoms, and will also affect food digestion and absorption. The more advanced the stomach cancer, the more likely the patient is to be co-infected with malnutrition.
In addition, stomach cancer cells also need a lot of nutrient support in the process of development. That is to say, the more stomach cancer enters the infiltrative and spreading period, the more nutrients will be consumed, so the patient will become thinner and thinner;
4. Gastrointestinal bleeding: According to the data mastered clinically, after gastric cancer enters the middle and advanced stages, patients will basically have different degrees of gastrointestinal bleeding. There are two main causes of bleeding, the first is the erosion and necrosis of cancer tissue, and the second is that cancer tissue invades the surrounding blood vessels and causes perforation of the stomach.
If the patient's bleeding volume is small, it is mostly manifested as fecal occult blood and black tarry stool. If the patient bleeds heavily, symptoms of hematemesis may occur.
If the recent stomach pain is accompanied by the above symptoms, especially with gastrointestinal bleeding, this may not be an ordinary chronic stomach disease, but a signal of the arrival of stomach cancer.
The point that needs to be emphasized here is that regardless of whether the stomach is cancerous or not, repeated stomach discomfort needs to be examined in time. Because different stomach treatment methods are different, targeted treatment can only be started after the diagnosis is confirmed.