Stomach Cancer
Stomach cancer is also known as gastric cancer. It can be developed in any part of the stomach and it can spread to other organs of the body especially in esophagus and small intestine. Stomach cancer mostly affects older people and two-third of the people under the age of 65. Stomach cancer is the growth of cancer cells on lining of the stomach cells. If the cancer is detected at the early stage it can be treated. We can see the symptoms for stomach cancer only at the advanced stage and during this stage it might have been spread to the other parts. By changing our lifestyle we can reduce the development of stomach cancer. There are two factors that involves in the development of stomach cancer, they are infection of helicobacter pylori bacteria and irregular diet such as having high salty food, pickled food and the food preserved in refrigerator.
The body is made up of many cells and these cells are divided to give rise to a new cell and the old cell dies. Instead of dieing if the cell remains alive then it will be formed as a tumor cell. From these tumor cells the cancer cells are spread to the other part of the body, but the non-cancerous cell is also called as tumors but it does not spread. Even though the stomach cancer is declined dramatically in the America and other European states, it still remains as a serious problem in the other countries. It is the leading cause for death. Over one million of people lead to death in a year due to this stomach cancer.
Signs and Symptoms of Stomach Cancer
It is difficult to detect stomach cancer in the early stage because it does not have any symptoms earlier. Stomach pain and indigestion are one of the reasons at the earlier stage. Sudden weight loss, vomiting, difficult in swallowing, jaundice and blood on your stool are the other symptoms and it is due to the hard development of stomach cancer and it is very difficult to cure at this stage. The risk factors for getting stomach cancer are as follows: salt food, smoking cigarettes, and family history of stomach cancer and infection of helicobacter pylori bacteria. When the stomach cancer becomes advanced the symptoms are vomiting after food, weakness in body, fatigue, and discomfort in the upper and middle part of the abdomen, bloating of stomach after meals, diarrhea and anemia. The above symptoms may also be the symptoms for stomach virus.
Treatment for Stomach Cancer
The treatments for stomach cancer are surgery, radiation therapy, multimodulating therapy, chemotherapy and biological therapy. Surgery is the most common treatment and the surgeon removes the lining part of the affected tissue and removes the location of the affected area. In chemotherapy the drugs are used to remove the cancer cells and in radiation therapy, x-rays are used to remove the affected cell.