Facts tell us that early symptoms of gastric cancer are not easy to detect, and its symptoms are similar to those of common digestive diseases, which may only include loss of appetite and abdominal discomfort, etc. These symptoms are very easy to be confused with gastric diseases such as gastritis and gastric ulcer, so people may not think that early gastric cancer may also have similar symptoms. When most gastric cancer patients in China visit hospitals, they often already have more serious symptoms, by which time the cancer has developed to the middle and late stages. To get the best time to treat stomach cancer depends largely on how much attention we pay to the early signs of stomach cancer, and recognizing the early symptoms of stomach cancer can be helpful for prevention and treatment. The following are some of the early symptoms of stomach cancer, which should not be avoided and should be diagnosed and treated as early as possible. What can be the early symptoms of stomach cancer? 1. bleeding, positive fecal occult blood test 2. loss of appetite 3. change in the nature and regularity of pain in “old gastric disease” 4. abdominal discomfort that cannot be relieved suddenly without history of gastric disease 5. weight loss It is worth noting that these symptoms are not specific, that is to say, if you have these manifestations, you should not put them in the right place and should not scare yourself. Cancer may have one or several of these manifestations, but some manifestations are not equal to cancer, and should be understood correctly. The symptoms are to remind you to pay high attention to the diagnosis, and further examination in hospital is needed to clarify the diagnosis. The most accurate and effective way is gastroscopy, which can diagnose most of the diseases of stomach at a glance and avoid the two extremes of “worrying” or “self-paralysis”.