What tests are needed for gastric cancer

If these examinations reveal distant metastasis or local lymph node metastasis, and the patient is not suitable for surgery, then chemotherapy, radiotherapy or targeted therapy can be used as a comprehensive treatment. However, because gastroscopy is not very popular and the willingness to receive treatment or examination is not very strong, the detection rate of early gastric cancer is low and the treatment effect is poor. Gastroscopy is the best way to detect early gastric cancer.

Does stomach cancer cause lower abdominal pain?

Some patients may experience abdominal pain after gastric cancer surgery. Different treatment methods are used according to the different causes of the pain: Postoperative pain is caused by gastrointestinal spasm due to surgical damage, and can be treated with antispasmodic and analgesic drugs such as scopolamine. In addition, some patients may also experience symptoms of acid reflux, heartburn, and upper abdominal pain. Lower abdominal pain is rare, but if the disease progresses and gastric cancer metastasizes to distant sites, such as abdominal metastasis, it may cause symptoms of lower abdominal pain. Abdominal distension and pain caused by gastric cancer is usually caused by the gastric cancer itself, so the problem of abdominal distension and pain can be solved by targeted treatment of gastric cancer.

How is gastric cancer diagnosed?

CT and MRI examinations play a decisive role in the diagnosis and staging of gastric cancer. Clinical pathological staging can be performed through structural changes in the gastric mucosa and whether the lymphoid organs such as the liver, pancreas, and spleen are enlarged, and appropriate treatment plans can be formulated. The diagnostic methods for gastric cancer include the following aspects: Gastroscopy: It can directly observe the location and range of gastric mucosal lesions and obtain pathological tissue for pathological examination. Typical symptoms of gastric cancer include pain in the upper abdomen, distending pain, dull pain, abdominal pain that can be aggravated after eating, fullness, loss of appetite, nausea and fatigue, vomiting blood, black stools, anemia, weight loss and other symptoms.