Warning after the incident: 18t mild female subjective abdominal pain without examination, shock when stomach cancer in the end

The 18-year-old girl has stomach cancer

Accordingly, this 18-year-old girl from Lam Dong, before that patient had signs of occasional mild abdominal pain, bought her own medicine for six months. Nearly a month before being admitted to the hospital, the patient had dyspepsia, anorexia, fatigue, about 5 kg loss, black bowel movements.

When in the hospital, a gastroscopy doctor discovered gastric tumors, biopsy found poor adenocarcinoma of gastric ring cell and operated on. However, because stomach cancer has spread to the abdomen, surgery cannot be performed but only chemotherapy is given.

According to doctors, poorly differentiated gastric cancer in the form of ring cells is a type of cancer with a high degree of malignancy, the ability to undergo surgery to cut the stomach to a low degree and short time after surgery.

In the case of MTH patients (23 years old, living in Ba Ria-Vung Tau), stomach cancer invaded the serosa and had lymph node metastasis, stage 3B. Three months earlier, patients had poor eating, indigestion, mild abdominal pain in the epigastric region. The patient was prescribed gastroscopy, CT scan of the abdomen, biopsy showed signs of pyloric stenosis, so he had laparoscopic surgery, and found the tumor in the cavity that was infiltrated to the serosa and caused narrowing of the subject gastric taste.

At HCMC University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, doctors regularly record cases of stomach cancer in young people under 30 years old. Unfortunately, these patients all went to the hospital at a late stage for subjective thinking not to think about stomach cancer.

Signs of stomach cancer

Blood in the stool

Blood in the stool may be caused by inflammation from the tumor in the stomach. This symptom usually occurs at a later stage of the disease, but may also be early.

Frequent stomach pain

Many patients have stomach cancer or pain in the epigastric region caused by cancer in the stomach. You should see a doctor if you have frequent abdominal pain.

Heartburn

People who often suffer from heartburn have a burning sensation, nausea and chest pain. This is a sign of cancer (often related to epigastric pain). People with heartburn may have stomach ulcers that put them at higher risk of stomach cancer.

Anorexia

If you are a person who likes to eat but suddenly anorexia may be due to a stomach tumor. Stomach ulcers also cause loss of appetite and increase the chance of getting cancer.

Losing weight lost control

Weight loss is a sign of stomach cancer, partly due to anorexia that makes people eat less. If your weight drops suddenly, you should quickly check your health and prevent the risk of getting sick early.

Difficulty swallowing

When the stomach tumor develops into the esophagus, the patient will have difficulty swallowing food. They will have a feeling of suffocation as their throat is clogged, choking, and having difficulty drinking water, food is like coming back out.

Faster than usual

This is a symptom that usually occurs in the later stages of the disease. Fasting may be due to a tumor in the stomach leading to abdominal distention. This symptom also occurs when abdominal muscles cannot push food through the intestines as usual. The stomach is easy to disperse, you will feel full but in fact have not eaten much.

The disease may appear in the following subjects:

- People over 50 years old

The higher the age, the greater the risk of stomach cancer. According to the study, people over 50 years of age are more likely to get stomach cancer. People under 40 years of age are less likely to have stomach cancer, but it is very dangerous when they get it, quickly relapse and metastasis, and have a poor prognosis.

- People with chronic stomach ulcers

People with chronic stomach ulcers, easy to recur, difficult to cure completely, long-term ulcers will form tumors inside the stomach.

- People with a history of stomach polyps

Most polyps are benign but there are many cases that turn into stomach cancer. Therefore, periodic health checks are needed to detect polyps early in order to take timely management measures to prevent cancer complications.

- Tobacco addiction, alcohol abuse

People who are addicted to cigarettes and alcohol will have a higher risk of stomach cancer. The reason is that tobacco and alcohol make cells lining the stomach be eroded, prolonged intoxication causes cancer.

- Eating without science

If you eat too much processed food, canned food, red meat, salted vegetables, fermented, hot spicy . will affect the stomach. Long-term formation of tumors inside the stomach.

People with risk factors for stomach cancer just mentioned need to actively examine and screen for stomach cancer to detect and treat the disease early.