What does it mean when a gastric cancer patient vomits blood?

What does it mean when a gastric cancer patient vomits blood?

Vomiting blood in gastric cancer patients means that the disease has developed to a more serious level, mainly in the middle and late stages of gastric cancer.

Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor that often occurs on the patient's gastric mucosa. It is mostly caused by bacterial infection, poor eating habits, and harsh environment. If patients with atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcers and other diseases are not treated in time, the condition is likely to gradually worsen and transform into gastric cancer under the influence of the above factors. Gastric cancer can be divided into three stages: early, middle, and late. In the early stage, most patients have no obvious symptoms, and a few patients will experience symptoms such as indigestion and upper abdominal pain. In the middle stage, upper abdominal pain is one of the most common symptoms, and some patients are also accompanied by anemia, loss of appetite and other symptoms. In the late stage, the tumor volume increases rapidly, invades blood vessels, causes vascular bleeding, can cause vomiting blood, and can also cause coagulation dysfunction, leading to vomiting blood.

Gastric cancer patients should go to a regular hospital for ultrasound and fiber gastroscopy examinations in time to clarify the cause of the disease, and receive targeted treatment according to the doctor's guidance. The common treatment method is surgery, which can be radical surgery or palliative surgery. After the operation, drugs such as omeprazole enteric-coated capsules and metoclopramide tablets should be used according to the doctor's advice, and combined with chemotherapy and targeted therapy to delay the progression of the patient's disease and prolong the patient's life.