The early symptoms of gastric cancer are not very obvious. When people can detect them, they are often late symptoms of gastric cancer. Late-stage symptoms of gastric cancer are difficult to treat. As far as my country's current medical technology is concerned, only surgical treatment can effectively alleviate the symptoms. Gastric cancer is also a very terrible disease. Nowadays, more and more young people are suffering from gastric cancer. Therefore, if nausea and vomiting often occur in daily life, beware of the arrival of gastric cancer.
1. Loss of appetite, weight loss and fatigue
Loss of appetite may be an early symptom of gastric cancer, which may be accompanied by or without stomach pain. It should be distinguished from anorexia in patients with hepatitis. Patients with hepatitis often experience symptoms such as elevated transaminases, fever, fatigue, yellow urine, jaundice and other symptoms. Some patients automatically restrict their daily diet due to abdominal distension and belching after eating, resulting in weight loss, weight loss, and fatigue.
2. Positive fecal occult blood or black stool
Gastrointestinal bleeding can also occur in the early stage of gastric cancer, usually showing positive fecal occult blood, that is, although the stool appears normal, blood cells can be found in the stool. Heavy bleeding can lead to melena or even vomiting blood. Especially the elderly should be alert to the possibility of gastric cancer once black stool occurs.
3. Upper abdominal discomfort and fullness
Nearly half of early gastric cancer patients have no clinical symptoms, only symptoms similar to indigestion, such as upper abdominal noise, dull pain, mild fullness, pain, nausea, belching, etc. These symptoms can also be seen in chronic gastritis , ulcers, functional dyspepsia , etc., and even occur occasionally in normal people.
4. Nausea, acid reflux and vomiting
These symptoms will also appear when digestive tract diseases occur, especially in patients with gastric cancer, they will be more obvious. If the stomach tumor is in the pylorus, nausea will often occur. If the tumor grows at the exit of the stomach, it will emit a sour or rotten egg smell, and vomiting will follow, mostly from food and gastric juice.
5. Stomach pain
Most patients with gastric cancer have early symptoms of stomach pain, which are often mistaken for gastritis or ulcers and seek medical attention. Symptoms can be temporarily relieved after oral administration of stomach medicine. The pain of gastric cancer generally has no obvious regularity and manifests as persistent dull pain, unlike gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer which has obvious characteristics of post-meal pain or pre-meal pain. People with original gastric or duodenal ulcers, if the pain regularity changes and drug treatment is not effective, should be alert to gastric cancer and seek medical treatment in time.
6. Fixed mass
Some patients with early gastric cancer can feel a fixed mass on the right side of their upper abdomen. Generally, the texture will be relatively hard and not smooth, and it will feel painful when pressed.
The above introduces some early symptoms of gastric cancer. Especially when nausea and vomiting occur for a long time, attention must be paid to avoid further worsening of gastric cancer. You should also recognize the early signs of gastric cancer in your life, try your best to achieve early detection, early treatment, and early recovery, and at the same time provide a certain degree of protection for your own health.
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