Gastric CA is the abbreviation of gastric cancer, the English word for cancer is Cancer, and it is customary to abbreviate gastric cancer as gastric CA in clinic.
As many people are afraid of talking about cancer, especially stomach cancer patients themselves, they will have a great psychological burden after knowing that they are suffering from stomach cancer, and even lose their confidence in treatment. Therefore, in order to avoid causing psychological burden to patients and their families, gastric CA is generally used as a substitute for gastric cancer in clinical practice.
Gastric cancer is a kind of digestive malignant tumor originated from gastric mucous membrane cells, which mostly occurs in the age of 40-70 years old, and most of them are male patients. It is usually asymptomatic in the early stage of its development, and in the middle and late stages, it often manifests symptoms such as abdominal pain, abdominal mass, anorexia, emaciation, etc. Therefore, once it is found, it is often in the late stage. Surgery is the most important treatment for gastric cancer, while those who cannot undergo surgery can receive chemotherapy and targeted therapy.