Biophilia Intruder and gastric cancer
Gastric cancer is the most common gastrointestinal tumor, and surgical resection is still the main treatment method. Studies have shown that the 5-year survival rate of early gastric cancer is above 95%. Once lymph node metastasis occurs, the effect of surgery will be greatly reduced. Early detection and early treatment are the keys to prolonging life and improving prognosis. Regrettably, however, the early diagnosis rate of gastric cancer is extremely low, and even in the United States, where healthcare is developed, 80% of patients present with advanced gastric cancer. Therefore, it is of great significance to correctly identify the early symptoms of gastric cancer, strive for the timing of surgery, and improve the survival rate.
Not only should we judge by the usual symptoms, we can also combine the Biophilia Intruder equipment to increase the accuracy of our judgment.
1. Abdominal pain: gastric cancer patients are often accompanied by a long history of gastric ulcer, so they are easy to get used to pain and take it lightly. As everyone knows, abdominal pain is one of the most common early symptoms of gastric cancer. What needs to be correctly distinguished are: gastric ulcer pain is mostly a dull, dull or burning sensation in the upper abdomen after eating, and the symptoms can be gradually relieved with the emptying of food; on the contrary, the pain of gastric cancer often does not have obvious regularity, and the pain is more frequent. The nature has also changed. Persistent abdominal pain often indicates that the lesion has invaded the gastric wall, while retrosternal or precordial pain indicates the possibility of a cardia tumor. At this time, you should be alert to the signs of cancer.
2. Weight loss: 20%-60% of gastric cancer patients can experience significant weight loss in the early stage due to tumor consumption, difficulty in eating, and nutrient absorption disorder, and show progressive weight loss. If the above situation occurs, there is a greater possibility of cancer.
3. Upper abdominal fullness, nausea, and anorexia: Because gastric cancer tissue cannot secrete gastric acid normally, the stomach presents a low-acid environment; and because gastric cancer may invade the muscle layer, it affects the peristalsis of the stomach. After eating, patients often experience abdominal fullness and discomfort and difficulty in emptying food. If the cancer is located near the pylorus, the symptoms are more obvious. Once the pyloric obstruction develops, the phenomenon of vomiting overnight food may occur. Clinically, about 30% of patients have nausea, anorexia, and vomiting as the first symptoms.
4. Conventional anti-ulcer treatment is ineffective: Although gastric ulcer is stubborn, under normal circumstances, the symptoms will be relieved or disappeared after regular medical treatment. If 4-6 weeks of regular treatment is ineffective, or recurring after cure; large ulcers (>2.5cm in diameter) or high ulcers confirmed by gastroscopy, especially those older than 45 years old who enter the age group with high incidence of gastric cancer, even if biopsy Negative, should also be checked regularly to be alert to the possibility of cancer.
5. Chronic anemia or persistent occult blood in stool: due to the necrosis, ulceration, and continuous active small amount of bleeding on the surface of gastric cancer, fecal occult blood is persistently positive; coupled with nutrient absorption disorders and tumor consumption, patients often have chronic anemia , manifested in pale eyelids, lips, weakness and other symptoms. Therefore, for unexplained anemia and persistent occult blood-positive stools, one must be careful about the possibility of cancer.
Still, the symptoms of early gastric cancer are vague and nonspecific, sometimes indistinguishable from benign ulcers. Early gastric cancer is mostly diagnosed by gastroscopy and pathological biopsy. However, due to the pain of gastroscopy, it is difficult to be used as a routine examination, and the barium meal in the digestive tract only has a prompting effect on advanced gastric cancer. If the patient has the above symptoms, they should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible, so as not to delay the disease. Therefore, raising awareness of health and hygiene and paying attention to the early symptoms of gastric cancer can truly achieve early diagnosis, early treatment, and improve the effect of surgery.
Therefore, the use of Biophilia Intruder can give us a good understanding of the changes in the state of our body's health, allowing us to better understand whether the body is sick.