After eating, I felt bloated and belched, and I always thought it was just simple indigestion, but according to the indigestion treatment, the symptoms were repeated and dragged on for half a year, until the whole person became thinner and thinner, which attracted attention, and I hurriedly went to the hospital for treatment, and underwent a gastroscopy under the advice of the doctor, and finally it was clear that it was stomach cancer.
The 52-year-old patient could not accept such a heavy reality, and kept asking the doctor, was it a mistake? I have no pain at all, how can it be stomach cancer?
The doctor said that to determine whether it is stomach cancer, biopsy is the gold standard, this patient has a huge ulcer in this part of the antrum, and the biopsy is clear as signet ring cell carcinoma, with such a pathological basis, it is obvious that the diagnosis is very clear.
Gastric cancer is a high-incidence malignant tumor in the mainland, like other malignant tumors, the early stage of gastric cancer is generally not painful, in fact, many patients diagnosed with gastric cancer, there is no symptom of stomach pain at all, from the appearance, they are no different from healthy people, and some gastric cancer patients, in fact, the symptoms are not typical, but they have been ignored again and again, in this situation, gastric cancer continues to progress, and finally develops from early to advanced stage, losing the opportunity for radical cure, regretting it.
Stomach cancer is not painful or itchy in the early stage, these 5 signs appear, don't hesitate, most of them are stomach cancer knocking on the door!
1. Symptoms of indigestion such as early satiety, bloating, belching, etc
When symptoms such as early satiety, bloating, belching, etc., are often simply classified as dyspepsia, and many people would rather take digestion-promoting drugs every day than go to the hospital.
What I want to tell you is that dyspepsia is divided into functional dyspepsia and organic dyspepsia according to different causes, and the latter must rule out the possibility of gastric cancer.
2. Unexplained loss of appetite
Many stomach cancer patients only show a decrease in appetite without other discomfort, and even the weight has not decreased significantly.
3. Unexplained vague pain in the upper abdomen
Although many stomach cancer patients have symptoms of upper abdominal pain, the pain is very mild, just a dull pain, at this time, it is easy to be ignored, many people will mistakenly think that they may have gastritis, and would rather go to the pharmacy to buy some stomach medicine than go to the hospital for treatment.
It is worth noting that stomach medicine is likely to disguise the symptoms, and some people take stomach medicine to get better and mistakenly think that the disease is cured, but they don't know that this is just an illusion.
4. Positive fecal occult blood for unknown reasons
Many people have no symptoms at all, but when the stool is tested, it is found that the fecal occult blood is positive, and at this time we should also be highly vigilant, many times, stomach cancer will cause gastrointestinal bleeding, when the amount of bleeding is not much, the stool may not turn black, and it will not necessarily cause hematemesis, only positive fecal occult blood.
5. Unexplained fatigue
Fatigue, one of the most neglected symptoms, when fatigue occurs, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is whether it is not well rested, or too tired, so there is fatigue.
Few people associate fatigue with cancer, but it is possible to cause fatigue when stomach cancer comes.
If you want to determine whether it is stomach cancer, you can't simply look at the symptoms, you also need to go to the hospital for further examination, among them, gastroscopy is the most common choice of doctors, gastroscopy can not only detect middle and advanced gastric cancer in time, gastroscopy can also help to detect early gastric cancer, so when the doctor recommends that you choose gastroscopy, you must not hesitate.