Carcinoma stomach

Gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver.

Symptoms: Stomach cancer is often asymptomatic or causes only nonspecific symptoms in its early stages. By the time symptoms occur, the cancer has often reached an advanced stage one of the main reasons for its poor prognosis.

Early stages:

Indigestion

Loss of appetite

Later Stages:

Abdominal pain

Vomiting

Diarrhea

Loss of Weight and Weakness

Bloating of the stomach after meals

vomiting blood or having blood stains

Dysphasia

These are the symptoms which can arise with the other problems also such as a stomach virus, gastric ulcer or tropical spruce. Diagnosis should be done by a gastroenterologist or an oncologist.

Causes and Prevention:

Consuming, smoked foods, salted fish and meat, and pickled vegetables oncologist. Nitrates and nitrites are substances commonly found in cured meats. They can be converted by certain bacteria, such as H pylori, into compounds that have been found to cause stomach cancer in animals. On the other hand, eating fresh fruits and vegetables that contain antioxidant vitamins (such as A and C) appears to lower the risk of stomach cancer.

Treatments

Surgery: Surgery is the most common treatment and is the only hope of cure for stomach cancer. The surgeon removes part or all of the stomach, as well as the surrounding lymph nodes, with the basic goal of removing all cancer and a margin of normal tissue. Depending on the extent of invasion and the location of the tumor, surgery may also include removal of part of the intestine or pancreas.

Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, is the treatment of disease by chemicals especially by killing micro-organisms or cancerous cells. In popular usage, it refers to antineoplastic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a cytotoxic standardized treatment regimen.

Radiation therapy: Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (also called radiation oncology, and sometimes abbreviated to XRT, is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells. Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant treatment. It is used as palliative treatment or as therapeutic treatment