Stomach cancer history and symptoms
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [2] Mohammed Abdelwahed M.D[3]
Overview
Overview
Symptoms of stomach cancer include abdominal pain, bloating, weight loss, hematemesis, melena, and dysphagia. Twenty-five percent of patients have a history of gastric ulcer
Symptoms
Symptoms
- Stomach cancer is often asymptomatic or causes only nonspecific symptoms in its early stages.
- By the time symptoms occur, the cancer has generally metastasized to other parts of the body, one of the main reasons for its poor prognosis.
History
- Twenty-five percent of patients have a history of gastric ulcer.
- Weight loss: Due to insufficient caloric intake, early satiety, and dysphagia.
Less common symptoms[1]
- Abdominal pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen, tends to be epigastric and mild.
- Nausea and vomiting: ay be due to the mass itself or gastric outlet obstruction from an advanced distal tumor.
- Weakness and fatigue.
- Hematemesis and melena: occult bleeding accompanied with iron deficiency anemia, overt bleeding is seen in less than 20% of cases.
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A (2016). “Cancer statistics, 2016”. CA Cancer J Clin. 66 (1): 7–30. doi:10.3322/caac.21332. PMID 26742998.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ajani JA, Bentrem DJ, Besh S, D’Amico TA, Das P, Denlinger C; et al. (2013). “Gastric cancer, version 2.2013: featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines”. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 11 (5): 531–46. PMID 23667204.
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