What are the symptoms of patients with advanced gastric cancer?

What are the symptoms of patients with advanced gastric cancer?

1. Due to multiple metastases, corresponding symptoms may appear, such as right upper abdominal pain, jaundice, fever, cough, hiccups, hemoptysis, dysphagia, dyspnea, as well as symptoms of membranous nephropathy, dermatomyositis, or skin pigmentation.

2. Late-stage patients usually have difficulty eating or have difficulty in digestion. Some may have other symptoms, such as distant metastasis symptoms, and general pain and discomfort. The pain is mainly caused by the large size of the gastric lesions and the metastasis of the surrounding lymph nodes, retroperitoneal lymph nodes, and intra-abdominal metastasis, which lead to abdominal pain.

What are the stages of gastric cancer?

Stage I is early-stage gastric cancer, when cancer cells have already invaded the gastric mucosa and have not metastasized or spread. Standardized treatment has a high cure rate. Generally, stage I gastric cancer is early-stage gastric cancer, which is relatively easy to treat. Stage IV generally refers to the late stage of gastric cancer, which can be treated with chemotherapy or surgery, but treatment is also relatively difficult.

Currently, gastric cancer is divided into four clinical stages according to the TNM staging system, namely stages I, II, III, and IV. Gastric cancer T3N2M0 is clinical stage III.