Early Symptoms of Gastric Ulcer Cancer

Early symptoms of gastric ulcer cancer are called “alarm symptoms” in medicine, which include increased pain, weight loss, vomiting blood or black stools, anemia. Gastric cancer has a high-risk group, and the high-risk group has the following characteristics: long-term smoking; preferring smoked, high-salt pickled and fried food; aged over 40, especially the elderly over 60; having gastric cancer patients in the family; having pre-cancerous gastric diseases, such as gastric ulcers, atrophic gastritis, gastric polyps, Barrett’s esophagus and so on; and pathological biopsy of atypical proliferation, and so on. To prevent gastric ulcer from becoming cancerous, early screening should be done, and early screening includes: i. tumor marker test, such as blood sampling for carcinoembryonic antigen, CA19-9, etc.. Second, serum gastric function test, such as serum pepsinogen, serum gastrin determination. Gastroscopy. Helicobacter pylori test.