How to detect early stomach cancer

Causes of diseases

There are many causes of stomach ailments such as stomach inflammation, non-rational nutrition (eating less fiber, eat more fried, fried, baked), ... Helicobacter pylori infection in it (HP) is the main cause of gastric inflammatory disease, gastroduodenal ulcers and stomach cancer.

According to statistics, the HP infection is the cause of 65-80% of stomach cancers, but only 2% of people infected with the bacteria. About 10% of the ca are related to genetic factors.

To diagnose the disease, the doctor will x-ray the stomach with medications or endoscopic optical barriers stomach to clearly see the tumor, and make some more tests to assess the spread of the cancer to other organs. This helps the doctor give the best treatment.

Symptoms are usually non-specific

The symptoms of stomach cancer are often vague and non-specific. The most common is indigestion, can accompanied by discomfort, ache, belly down, belching, nausea, loss of appetite. These symptoms are easily overlooked but you must take the examination if the symptoms last longer than two weeks. The expression can be: vomiting, thin, tired, pernicious anemia, abdominal pain or go in addition to black.

In the early stages of stomach cancer, patients often do not have the characteristic clinical signs, so when the disease appeared in the late stages, the cancer has metastasized to other parts of the body.

So easy to confuse symptoms of stomach cancer with other illnesses such as viral infections, stomach ulcers or inflammation of the large intestine mouth ulcers. So to avoid unfortunate consequences as well as to increase the effectiveness of treatment, prolonging of life, medical experts recommend periodic health check every year, especially in the case of the suspected disease has one of the hallmarks of the digestive tract need to go check cause and early treatment.

The method of treatment

Surgery:

The first treatment and mainly for the early stages of stomach cancer surgery: the removal of part or all of the stomach. After 5 days the patient was able to drink and eat again. 10-14 days after surgery, the patient can discharge.

The last stage of cancer cases can be: temporary surgery to restore circulation of the digestive tract, prolong life for the patient.

Chemical therapy:

This is the method of treatment with the anticancer drug in particular. These drugs are often used together in a week, then a break smoking 2 or 3 weeks and then use the next. If the cancer at an early stage, chemotherapy refers to support for surgery, radiation beam or both, intended to destroy the leftover cancer cells in the body to avoid a recurrence of stomach cancer later on.

Chemotherapy will have some effect , but the side effects are temporary and can be reduced.

Beam radiation therapy:

This measures the radiation to kill the cancer cells. The radiation is calculated exactly on the position of the cancer to reduce the harm to healthy tissue. In stomach cancer, radiation treatment after surgery to destroy remaining cancer cells. Beam radiation therapy can be used together with chemical therapy to shrink the tumor and relieve the symptoms.

Japan is a country with a high rate of gastric cancer in the world, was successful in the early detection program to highly effective surgery, reaching 80% of patients alive after 5 years. The whole world to recognize and apply that technique. Vietnam is also a country with a high incidence, need to know to have the proper attention to cancer of the stomach.=