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The most common early signs of gastric cancer

Time:2009-11-06 10:27  Author:admin Hits:
Gastric cancer is the most common human malignancy. According to statistics, the incidence rate of all tumors in China accounts for about 1 / 4, ranking first in the country die each year from gastric cancer patients have more than 310,000.

     Of early gastric cancer without obvious symptoms until the patient is already in the self-treatment when the majority of late, such as the treatment in early or mid-term it would be lucky. The overall 5-year survival rate of gastric cancer was 8% ~ 11%, which is radical surgery of early gastric cancer rate of 90% ~ 100%, after 5-year survival rate of 90% ~ 99%. However, due to early gastric cancer goes undetected, it is necessary to rely on health education and screening to improve the detection rate of early gastric cancer with a view to early treatment. According to foreign experts and clinicians experience the following symptoms should be cause for vigilance:

Most of stomach pain in early onset gastric cancer patients have stomach pain, began to feel that the mere expansion of abdominal discomfort or heaviness, and sometimes the Ministry of Xin Wo dull, often mistaken for gastritis or ulcer disease, and left untreated, the symptoms may temporarily relieve . If disease occurred in the gastric antrum, duodenum functional changes may occur, there rhythmic pain, similar to the symptoms of ulcer disease is often overlooked until the development of the disease sustained pain or even melena or hematemesis when attention is paid to at a time when advanced cancer often have to lose the opportunity to cure. Thus, one must guard against stomach pain, nor the specificity of the common early signs of stomach cancer, timely medical treatment.

Loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue is also a group of common and a lack of specificity of early signals of gastric cancer. Loss of appetite may be early symptoms of gastric cancer, and not with the symptoms of stomach pain, if symptoms concurrent with the stomach and can be ruled out hepatitis, in particular attention should be paid. Some patients after eating due to abdominal distention, belching automatically limit the diet, resulting in weight loss and weight loss, fatigue.

Nausea, vomiting, gastric cancer, early symptoms may appear a sense of fullness after eating, accompanied by mild nausea. Cardia cancer, there may be eating began to flow, and the gradual development of dysphagia and food regurgitation. The further development of gastric cancer may be due to pyloric obstruction and vomiting.

Blood in the stool of this symptom appeared in the early gastric cancer, a small amount of stomach bleeding manifestations fecal occult blood positive, amount of bleeding can occur for a long time hematemesis and melena. Where no stomach illness the elderly, once the black is even more likely to be vigilant against gastric cancer.

In addition, diarrhea, constipation, stomach lower discomfort, palpable abdominal pressure with deep tenderness and mild muscle tension can also be seen as early signs of gastric cancer.