These symptoms should alert a person and force him to undergo a medical examination of the digestive system.
Stomach cancer is also common, and bowel cancer. Doctors claim that these two diseases are the most popular, so each of us does not hurt to find signs that could indicate the development of cancer in the stomach. Moreover, the main causes of stomach cancer are diseases such as gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, from which suffer the vast majority of people.
Who is at risk?
As we have noted, ulcer and those with gastritis, others more prone to cancer of the stomach. But oncologists are convinced that the disease is more common in older people and mostly men, not women.
Smokers and those who abuse alcohol are also at risk of stomach cancer and not only.
Obesity and a hereditary factor, in which stomach cancer was observed among the older generation in the family, it can cause mutation of healthy cells into cancer.
First symptoms of stomach cancer that should disturb you:
– pain in the epigastric region, accompanied by lack of appetite and sudden weight loss;
– discomfort during swallowing of food or drink appears often because of the growth of the tumor in the upper part of the stomach;
– quick overeating when eating small portion of food, just feels stuffed;
– decrease in hemoglobin level or have a diagnosed iron deficiency anemia;
– black semi-fluid stool with very bad smell, and vomiting masses of black color or blood.
As you can see, some symptoms may seem completely safe, but that doesn’t mean that you can ignore them. In any case, the appearance of multiple signs of cancer of the stomach from this list should make you immediately examined by a doctor.
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