Things to note when suffering from gastric cancer

Nowadays, gastric cancer has become the most common type of cancer among young people. This is entirely because young people’s eating habits are not very regular, and they often eat one meal and skip the next. It would be strange if they don’t get gastric cancer. In addition to receiving timely surgical treatment after gastric cancer, young patients should pay attention to some other matters in their daily lives. Let’s take a closer look at these precautions.

Things that gastric cancer patients need to pay attention to:

1. Symptoms of young gastric cancer patients are often atypical

Compared with the atypical symptoms of gastric cancer in middle-aged and elderly patients, the symptoms of young people are even more atypical, which may be related to the physical constitution and strong tolerance of young people. In the early stage, it can manifest as a variety of gastrointestinal diseases and systemic diseases.

2. Compared with middle-aged and elderly patients with gastric cancer, the proportion of female patients in young patients with gastric cancer has increased

The survey shows that the male to female ratio of middle-aged and elderly gastric cancer patients is 3:2, while the male to female ratio of young gastric cancer patients is 1:1.

3. Once young patients with gastric cancer develop the disease, their tumors are more malignant

In terms of tumor pathological characteristics, compared with middle-aged and elderly gastric cancer patients, the proportion of malignant processes in young people with gastric cancer is very high, and the tumor grows and metastasizes very rapidly.

4. Young patients with gastric cancer often have high rates of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis

Gastric cancer in young people is often confused with gastritis, ulcer disease, indigestion and other diseases. This situation is mainly related to the fact that young people ignore their own diseases, think they are healthy, take medicine on their own or do not seek medical treatment when they feel unwell.

I hope young people will remember to develop good eating habits in their daily lives, and eat on time no matter how busy they are at work. Once you find that your body has some adverse reactions, you must go for a gastroscopy, so that you can find some diseases early and receive treatment early to avoid the situation where they are found in the late stage.