Does drinking alcohol cause stomach cancer?

Drinking alcohol for a long time will damage the gastric mucosa. Damage to the gastric mucosa will affect the integrity of the stomach. The gastric mucosa is often irritated and prone to ulcers, leading to bleeding. In more serious cases, it can lead to gastric perforation, stomach pain, and even mutations, which can eventually induce gastric cancer. These chemical carcinogens can cause the mucosal cells to become malignant and eventually form gastric cancer if they stimulate the gastric mucosa for a long time. Long-term excessive drinking may lead to gastric cancer.

How long can you live with symptoms of mid-to-late stage gastric cancer?

Gastric cancer is a very serious malignant tumor. How long patients with gastric cancer in the middle and late stages can survive depends on the type of gastric cancer and whether it is highly malignant or less malignant. The main symptoms of gastric cancer in the middle and late stages are upper abdominal pain, which sometimes affects sleep, and progressive weight loss and decreased food intake. Based on your description, the average survival period for gastric cancer in the middle and late stages is three months to one year.

What are the complications of advanced gastric cancer?

In the late stage of gastric cancer, due to the extensive invasion of the tumor, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and abdominal pain may occur. In addition, gastrointestinal bleeding may also occur. Generally, in the late stage of gastric cancer, anemia, weight loss, hypoproteinemia, electrolyte imbalance, etc. may occur. If these symptoms occur, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time. In addition, it may also cause intestinal obstruction, because gastric cancer may spread to other organs and cause poor function. Pathological peritoneal and pleural effusions, and the occurrence of malignant peritoneal effusions are complications of advanced gastric cancer that worsen gastric cancer complications. This indicates that the tumor has extensively metastasized to the abdominal cavity and the disease has developed to a very serious degree. Gastric cancer surgery has certain complications, so the surgical complications of gastric cancer can also be divided into early postoperative complications and long-term postoperative complications.