What are the hazards to gastric cancer patients

In recent years, the incidence of gastric cancer has remained high, and the patients are getting younger and younger. If the treatment is not timely, it may cause life-threatening at any time. Experts say that gastric cancer is a malignant tumor that needs early detection, early examination, and early treatment. So, what harm will gastric cancer bring to patients?

1. When gastric cancer patients have digestive tract bleeding, it is usually a small amount of bleeding, and heavy bleeding is relatively rare. About 5% of patients may have heavy bleeding. Complications of gastric cancer are manifested as vomiting blood and (or) black stools, which are occasionally the first symptoms. Gastric cancer patients may experience dizziness, palpitations, tarry stools, and vomiting of coffee-colored substances. This is one of the harmful manifestations of gastric cancer.

2. The harm of gastric cancer: When gastric cancer metastasizes to the abdominal cavity and compresses the common bile duct, gastric cancer patients may develop jaundice and clay-colored stools.

3. Combined with pyloric obstruction, which is more common in gastric cancer originating from the pylorus and cardia. When gastric cancer at the gastric fundus extends to the cardia or esophagus, it causes obstruction of the lower end of the esophagus. Tumors near the pylorus are prone to pyloric obstruction. It can be seen that the harmful manifestations of gastric cancer include vomiting, an expanded stomach in the upper abdomen, and the sound of water splashing.

Warm reminder: Gastric cancer has a high incidence in my country, mainly in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old. The causes of the disease are varied. If treatment is not timely, it will not only cause other complications, but may also endanger life. Therefore, after understanding the harm of gastric cancer, we must do a good job of prevention to avoid gastric cancer.