Gastric cancer has the highest incidence among various malignant tumors in China. Especially in male malignant tumors, it ranks second only to lung cancer. Let's take a look at who is more likely to develop gastric cancer in daily life.
【Five Typical Early Symptoms of Gastric Cancer】
1: After eating, the stomach feels uncomfortable, especially with bloating and mild stomach pain. As the tumor invades, the symptoms become more obvious.
2: Stomach pain and pain in the left upper abdomen, early stage is dull pain.
3: Sudden weight loss, losing 10-20 kilograms or even more within a month.
4: Poor appetite, significant decrease in appetite, especially for meat lovers who develop aversion or even nausea and vomiting towards the meat they usually enjoy.
5: Melena, caused by bleeding from the tumor invading the gastric mucosa, patients will experience black stool, which looks like shiny black tar.
【Who is More Likely to Develop Gastric Cancer in Daily Life】
1. Patients with precancerous lesions, such as chronic atrophic gastritis, chronic gastric ulcers, gastric polyps larger than 2cm, partial gastrectomy, and other precancerous lesions, such as giant hypertrophic gastritis, verrucous gastritis, etc.
2. Long-term unhealthy diet habits, liking to eat various carcinogenic substances with high nitrite content, such as pickled, smoked, dried seafood, leftovers, and eating less fresh vegetables.
3. Long-term alcohol and tobacco users, with the highest risk for those who started smoking in their youth. People who are more likely to develop gastric cancer in daily life.
4. Family history of gastric or esophageal cancer: the incidence of gastric cancer in family members of patients is 2-3 times higher than that of the general population.
5. Long-term poor psychological state, depression, inferiority, sadness, and pain, significantly increase the risk of gastric cancer.
6. Long-term exposure to polluted gases, liquids, and workers in the metal industry, significantly increase the risk of gastric cancer.
7. People living in areas with poor geology and water sources are more likely to develop gastric cancer.
【Is Traditional Chinese Medicine Helpful in Treating Gastric Cancer】
The advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in treating gastric cancer: the effect of improving symptoms is different from other treatment methods. Traditional Chinese medicine also has its own strengths in this area. For example, surgical treatment can remove cancer, but sometimes it can cause postoperative functional disorders and new symptoms. The reaction and sequelae after radiation therapy are also significant. Chemotherapy also has a significant impact on the digestive and hematopoietic systems. Therefore, after taking Chinese medicine, various symptoms caused by cancer can often be improved for a certain period of time.
If the cancer itself improves with the use of Chinese medicine, the symptoms can often be significantly relieved or even disappear. Traditional Chinese medicine has a strong holistic concept and often considers the characteristics of the patient's whole body, not just limited to the cancerous lesion itself. For most cancer patients, local treatment cannot solve the problem of radical cure, and the problem of cancer lies in: the multicenter growth of cancer itself, the recurrence or regrowth after local treatment, and the problem of cancer metastasis, which cannot be solved by local treatment.
Because traditional Chinese medicine has its inherent characteristics in the overall view of the human body and disease, it has its strengths in comprehensive treatment.
【What Are the Treatment Methods for Gastric Cancer】
1. Chemotherapy:
This treatment method for gastric cancer is commonly known as chemotherapy. It is mainly used for preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative, and late-stage gastric cancer or patients who cannot undergo surgery for other reasons.
2. Endoscopic treatment:
This treatment method for gastric cancer is only suitable for some patients. If the condition cannot be surgically removed due to systemic diseases in the early stage, endoscopic treatment can be used.
3. Radiation therapy:
Selecting this treatment method for gastric cancer during the course of the disease can prolong survival time and is also a good treatment method for gastric cancer.
4. Surgical treatment:
This is currently the preferred treatment method for gastric cancer. The surgical methods mainly include radical curative resection, palliative resection, and shunt surgery to relieve pyloric obstruction in advanced gastric cancer.
5. Biological therapy:
This treatment method for gastric cancer mainly involves adding immune enhancers to patients with the aim of improving their immune ability against tumors and extending their lives.
