Stomach Cancer Symptoms Treatment
Causes stomach cancer
Stomach cancer is more common in men than in women. The western food pattern plays a role in its development. In addition, there are a certain gastric bacteria that causes gastric mucosa and eventually cancer. There may also be hereditary factors, although hereditary stomach cancer is very rare.
Symptoms of stomach cancer
The stomach is a large organ so that a tumor can reach large dimensions before complaints arise. In the beginning, there are often complaints such as vague pain in the upper abdomen, fast feeling full, food that does not fall well, vomiting without a clear cause, sluggishness, pale appearance, rapid fatigue (anemia) and pitch black stool. Additionally, blood or food resulting from stomach withdrawal may indicate stomach cancer.
Stomach cancer treatment
If the stage of your illness is known, the doctor determines what treatment is possible. Apart from the stage, of course, other personal factors also play. For example, your physical condition. And what treatments do you want to undergo yourself? Your doctor will therefore always discuss with you the possibilities and the different treatments.
Treatment options
A surgery in combination with chemotherapy is the most common treatment for stomach cancer. Other treatment options are chemotherapy without surgery, radiation and stent placement.
Surgery
A surgery in stomach cancer can be both curative and palliative.
Curative
A curative surgery is aimed at the cure. The surgeon removes the entire tumor with the surrounding tissue.
Palliative
In a palliative surgery, it is not possible to remove all the malignant tissue. This surgery is therefore primarily intended to reduce complaints.
At the time the surgery will take place, it is sometimes not known whether it will be palliative or curative. The doctor then determines during the surgery whether the tumor is completely removed and whether there are sores. At that point, the physician can decide that surgery will be palliative, and the surgery will often be less significant.
During surgery, the physician removes the tumor with a portion of the surrounding tissue. A curative treatment also removes a number of lymph nodes.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a treatment with cancer-inhibiting drugs, also known as cytostatics. These are medicines that inhibit cell division. These drugs are therefore particularly harmful to cells that share quickly. Malignant cells (cancer cells) usually share faster than healthy cells. Chemotherapy is, therefore, an appropriate treatment to 'destroy' cancer cells.
Radiotherapy
Radiation therapy (ie radiation) is one of the most commonly used treatments for cancer. Upon irradiation, the tumor is exposed to radioactive radiation, causing the cancer cells to die and die.
Healthy cells can also be damaged by the radiation, but fortunately, they usually recover better than cancer cells.
Stomach cancer sores usually occur in the liver or in the lungs. There are several treatment options of these metastases. In some cases, it is possible to apply radiation.
The correct dose of radiation is calculated based on the size and location of the tumor or the sowing. This dose is divided into several irradiations, which occur several times a week.
Placement of stent
If the tumor is in the upper part of your stomach or just at the stomach outlet and an operation is not possible, the doctor may place a stent. This is a palliative treatment. A stent is a tube that is pushed into the stomach during a gastroscopy. At the height of the tumor, the 'collapsed' stent is released. There the stent develops and squeezes to the tumor. This way a passage is created and food can pass from the esophagus to the stomach or stomach to the small intestine and you can eat better. A stent is placed under a 'rust'. As a result, you hardly notice anything about it. Another name for a stent is nutritional tube or endoprosthesis.
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