End-of-life manifestations of elderly people with advanced stomach cancer

Elderly people with advanced stage of stomach cancer may show emaciation, weakness, black stool, respiratory difficulty, shock and other manifestations at the end of their life. Patients with advanced gastric cancer will have symptoms such as pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, etc. Due to the consumption of body’s own tissues, they will also have malignant disease, which will be manifested as extreme lethargy, weakness, and inability to take care of their own life. Before death, the patient may also suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding, which may cause vomiting of blood, black stools, or even shock, and is often accompanied by respiratory failure, which may lead to respiratory difficulties. For advanced stage of stomach cancer, treatment mainly focuses on alleviating patients’ pain and improving life quality, palliative treatment can be used to make patients reduce pain as much as possible, monitor their condition on a daily basis, and adjust their mentality to face the disease with positive and optimistic mindset.