Symptoms of advanced gastric cancer in the elderly

When people reach old age, their body resistance is relatively low, and the elderly will suffer from many diseases. Everyone should pay attention to the high incidence of gastric cancer, pay attention to some common symptoms in life, and at the same time, pay attention to nursing and health care matters and understand the symptoms. So what are the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer in the elderly? Let's take a look at the following introduction.

1. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Bleeding can occur in early gastric cancer, often manifested as tarry stools. The amount of bleeding in late gastric cancer is large. If there is pyloric obstruction, coffee-colored or dark red blood is often mixed in the vomitus.

2. Upper abdominal discomfort, often feel dull pain, dull pain, dull pain is the most common initial symptom of gastric cancer, stomach pain, pain location is mainly in the heart, sometimes only upper abdominal discomfort or dull pain. The more typical pain is pain without regularity, not relieved by eating, and irregular, can not be relieved after eating, gradually worsen, can be. Some may have rhythmic pain, especially antral gastric cancer is more obvious, even eating or taking medicine can relieve.

3. Loss of appetite, loss of appetite, loss of appetite or loss of appetite, unexplained anorexia and weight loss are likely to be the initial symptoms of early gastric cancer, often accompanied by weight loss, gradual weight loss, or fullness and belching after eating, aversion to meat, etc., which are relatively common symptoms of gastric cancer. Nearly 50% of gastric cancer patients have obvious symptoms of loss of appetite or loss of appetite. Some patients restrict their food intake because eating too much will cause abdominal distension or abdominal pain.

4. Nausea and vomiting, bloating after eating, mild nausea, nausea, etc. Typical mechanical pyloric obstruction causes gastric distension and vomiting. This is a typical manifestation of early gastric cancer.

5. Patients with no history of gastric disease or gastric ulcer in the past, with recent regular changes in upper abdominal pain, and the severity is getting worse. However, patients with unexplained upper abdominal discomfort or pain in the recent period, which is ineffective after treatment, should also consider the possibility of gastric cancer if the symptoms are relieved but relapse in a short period of time.

When gastric cancer reaches its late stage, it becomes more difficult to treat. The above are some of the signs of late-stage gastric cancer that we have summarized for you. If you find similar symptoms, don’t worry too much. Actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment. I believe that miracles can happen and you can say goodbye to gastric cancer.