What are the early symptoms of gastric cancer

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I am a patient with early gastric cancer. Fortunately, my disease was discovered in a timely manner, so I was able to recover after certain treatment. However, the early symptoms of gastric cancer are not so obvious. Now let me introduce the early symptoms of gastric cancer.

What are the early symptoms of gastric cancer

First, most patients with early gastric cancer have no obvious symptoms, and a few have nausea, vomiting or upper gastrointestinal symptoms similar to ulcer disease. Pain and weight loss are the most common clinical symptoms of advanced gastric cancer. Patients often have more specific upper gastrointestinal symptoms, such as abdominal discomfort, fullness after eating, with the progress of the disease, upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fatigue.

Second, according to the location of the tumor, there are also special manifestations. Gastric cancer of cardia and fundus may have retrosternal pain and progressive dysphagia; gastric cancer near pylorus may have pylorus obstruction; gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms such as hematemesis and melena may occur after tumor destroys blood vessels. Persistent abdominal pain often indicates tumor expansion beyond the gastric wall, such as supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, ascites, jaundice, abdominal mass, anterior rectal fossa and mass.

Third, the cancer of cardia and fundus is easy to invade the lower part of esophagus, and the cancer of gastric antrum can invade duodenum. Gastric cancer with poor differentiation and invasive growth is easy to spread to omentum, colon, liver, pancreas and other adjacent organs after breaking through serosa.

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For patients, not aware of their own symptoms is the most frightening, because now many of the diseases leading to death are due to the condition is not found in time Oh an, so we need to understand the early symptoms of gastric cancer, early detection and treatment.