Early gastric cancer is painless and itchy! Don't hesitate if you find these symptoms, it may be gastric cancer "reporting"

According to statistics from the World Health Organization in 2020, there are more than 1 million new cases of gastric cancer in the world, and China has more than 500,000 cases, making it the country with the highest incidence of gastric cancer in the world!

The bad thing is that although the incidence of gastric cancer is very high, the early detection rate is not high.

Many people are diagnosed with gastric cancer in the late stage, and they have lost the opportunity for surgical radical treatment, and even their lives are quickly taken away by gastric cancer.

The reason why gastric cancer is difficult to detect in the early stage is that early gastric cancer is painless and has no particularly obvious symptoms.

In order to detect gastric cancer early, doctors will recommend going to the hospital for gastroscopy as soon as possible.

However, there is a certain discomfort in gastroscopy. A tube is inserted from the mouth into the stomach. Just thinking about it is terrifying. Many people are naturally unwilling to spend money to suffer this. They will think, I don’t have any symptoms, and I still spend money to suffer, then I am not mentally ill!

In fact, this idea is totally wrong. As I said before, early gastric cancer is painless, so when you don't feel anything, you may have already suffered from early gastric cancer.

There is no other way to detect early gastric cancer except gastroscopy.

Some people say to do CT scans, and some say to do barium meal examinations. These examinations are often useful for advanced gastric cancer, but they are powerless for early gastric cancer.

There are also some people who are still unwilling to check even if they are uncomfortable. As time goes by, they keep delaying, and the disease continues to progress. It is too late to diagnose the disease.

So, when these symptoms appear, don't hesitate, it may be gastric cancer "reporting"!

1. Symptoms of indigestion

Some early gastric cancers only cause indigestion. Indigestion is not a disease at all in most people's eyes. At most, you can buy some medicine to promote digestion. Because of indigestion, going to the hospital for gastroscopy is not necessary at all in many people's eyes.

But it is precisely this kind of thinking that can easily lead to missing the best time to discover gastric cancer.

You should know that if early gastric cancer can be discovered in time, the cure rate can almost reach 100%, and the survival period of more than five years after surgery can reach more than 95%. As we all know, the treatment of cancer is judged by five years. If there is no recurrence in five years, it can be called clinical cure.

2. Upper abdominal pain

If you still ignore the upper abdominal pain, you will regret it even if you are finally diagnosed.

Upper abdominal pain is a sign of gastric cancer progression. Why does it hurt? It is because the cancer has spread locally or distantly.

Many people go for examination when the pain is unbearable. As a result, the doctor can't do anything because it is too late.

3. Vomiting

Our gastric cancer is most likely to occur in the gastric antrum. There is a pylorus in front of the gastric antrum. Food can only reach the small intestine through the pylorus. Think about it, if there is a mass in the gastric antrum, what will the result be?

Once gastric antrum cancer occurs, it is easy to cause pyloric obstruction, and the most typical manifestation is vomiting.

4. Weight loss

The stomach is the most important digestive organ in the human body, so if there is a problem with the stomach, it is easy to cause poor absorption of nutrients, thus causing weight loss.

The main function of the stomach is to grind food, grind large pieces of food into porridge-like chyme, and then absorb it in the small intestine. If there is a problem with the stomach, the food cannot be ground, and natural absorption becomes difficult.

In addition, cancer itself consumes nutrients, and as the disease progresses, cancer will also cause cachexia.

Gastroscopy is too painful! Many people give up, but there are so many new cases of gastric cancer every year. Compared with the pain of gastroscopy, they have to endure long treatment. Some people died not long after being diagnosed.

Most patients with advanced gastric cancer regret that they did not have a gastroscopy earlier, but is regret useful?

For health, there is no regret medicine. To be honest, a gastroscopy does not take long, but it can change your destiny. Whether to do a gastroscopy or not depends on your one thought.