What is the difference between gastric cancer and ordinary stomachache?

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First of all, we should pay attention to the pain in the upper abdomen. Eighty percent of patients with gastric cancer will have stomach pain in the early stage of the disease.

The beginning is to feel abdominal discomfort, heavy, swelling, dull pain, but often will be mistaken for gastritis or ulcer disease, symptoms will be temporarily relieved after treatment. But most gastric cancer patients experience pain that gradually increases, from ulcer-like hunger pain or post-meal pain (also known as rhythmic pain) to persistent, irregular pain. Therefore, it is necessary to be alert to stomach pain, a lack of specific early signal of gastric cancer, especially for people over 40 years old, and timely gastroscopy, in order to make a clear diagnosis.

Secondly, attention should be paid to loss of appetite, emaciation and fatigue, which are also a group of common but no special signals of gastric cancer.

If loss of appetite appears with stomachache symptoms and hepatitis is ruled out, attention should be paid to it. There are some patients because after eating abdominal distension, belching and other symptoms, automatically reduce food intake. Or tumors lead to faster metabolic decomposition of the body, patients will appear weight loss, emaciation symptoms. Nausea and vomiting, hematemesis, blood in the stool also need attention.

The early stage of the cardiac tumor will appear not eat freely, then will slowly appear dysphagia, reflux and other symptoms; Pyloric obstruction may also result in abdominal distension and vomiting, or even vomiting overnight food. Blood in the stool is caused by lesions that destroy small blood vessels in the gastric mucosa or muscle layer. The elderly who usually have no stomach disease should be alert to the occurrence of gastric cancer once black stool appears.

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