Why does gastric cancer belong to advanced stage once found? The doctor sighed, the body showed 4 signs, it was the stomach calling for help

Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the gastric mucosa. Men aged 40 ~ 70 are the main incidence of gastric cancer. The cause of gastric cancer is related to Helicobacter pylori infection.

In addition, improper diet for a long time, excessive smoking and drinking, and long-term stomach diseases are also the main factors inducing gastric cancer. After suffering from gastric cancer, if early surgical treatment, the 5-year survival rate can reach 90% ~ 100%.

However, once found, most gastric cancer also belongs to advanced stage. What's going on? Now, let's introduce it in detail.

Why does gastric cancer belong to advanced stage once found?

The symptoms of gastric cancer are mild in the early stage, and most of the symptoms are similar to those of gastritis or duodenal ulcer, so it is easy to be ignored by patients.

In addition, the process of gastric examination will be a little painful. For example, gastroscopy is difficult to be accepted by the public. This has caused many people to be unwilling to do an examination even if they have some stomach discomfort. In this way, it is difficult to detect early gastric cancer in time.

It can be seen that once gastric cancer is found, it belongs to the cause of advanced stage, which is closely related to the neglect of early symptoms by patients. So what are the early symptoms after suffering from gastric cancer? Next, let's introduce it in detail, hoping to attract everyone's attention.

What are the early symptoms of gastric cancer?

1. Indigestion

After suffering from gastric cancer, patients will basically have a series of dyspepsia symptoms in the early stage. Specifically, it is difficult for patients to digest food quickly after eating. And there will be a series of belching, nausea, acid reflux, and heartburn. In addition, it will be accompanied by a series of indigestion symptoms such as continuous burping.

2. Fullness discomfort

The patient's stomach is often full and uncomfortable, which has nothing to do with dietary factors. Even if the patient does not eat, there will be obvious abdominal distension in the stomach.

In case of fullness discomfort, patients will be accompanied by increased stool frequency and diarrhea. This symptom can be treated with some drugs in the early stage, but it will occur repeatedly. Once entering the middle and late stage, these symptoms can not be alleviated by drugs, and become more and more serious.

3. Abdominal dull pain

The abdominal pain caused by early gastric cancer is very similar to that caused by gastritis or improper diet. The patient's upper abdomen will have a faint pain, which is particularly mild, but repetitive and intermittent.

In the early stage, if the patient takes drugs or hot compress, it can reduce the pain. However, with the development of the disease, this pain will become more and more obvious, and can not be alleviated by drugs and other means.

4. Discharge black stool

Most patients with gastric cancer will excrete black stool after entering the middle and advanced stage. However, a small number of patients with gastric cancer will have black stool in the early stage, because when the tumor grows, the gastric mucosa is stimulated, resulting in a small amount of bleeding.

If the patient is accompanied by rapid weight loss and hematemesis, it indicates that he has entered the advanced stage of gastric cancer.

In short, once a malignant tumor grows in the stomach, the patient will have the above four symptoms. In addition, some patients will have symptoms such as anorexia, weight loss and anemia in the early stage. If there is no early treatment when symptoms appear, cancer cells will spread rapidly and seriously threaten the lives of patients.

Therefore, in case of repeated epigastric pain, weight loss, rapid loss of appetite and other symptoms, you must go to a regular hospital for treatment, so as to ensure the health of patients to the greatest extent.

In addition, patients must adjust their diet, do not eat all spicy, stimulating, cold, raw and moldy foods, quit smoking and alcohol, and pay more attention to emotional conditioning, which has a certain auxiliary effect on the treatment of gastric cancer.