When elderly people suffer from stomach cancer, the symptoms may not be obvious in the early stage, while stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, vomiting blood, weight loss and other symptoms may appear in the middle and late stages.
Stomach cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in digestive tract, which refers to malignant tumors occurring in the stomach, preferably in middle-aged and old people. When suffering from stomach cancer, a series of uncomfortable clinical symptoms may appear, affecting their normal work and life.
In the early stage of gastric cancer, the clinical symptoms are not obvious, and the symptoms are similar to indigestion, which can be manifested as fullness and bloating after meals, vague pain and discomfort in stomach and epigastric region, and loss of appetite, etc. As the disease progresses to middle-aged and old people, it can be characterized by a series of symptoms.
As the disease progresses and develops into middle or late stage stomach cancer, its symptoms will become more and more obvious, such as obvious abdominal pain, stomach pressure, decreased appetite, recurrent nausea and vomiting or weight loss, and in serious cases, vomiting blood or blood in stool will also occur.
When elderly people suffer from stomach cancer, they should be treated in time to improve the prognosis and survival period.