Stomach Cancer Symptoms

Learn fast all stomach cancer symptoms, how it is diagnosed and how others have dealt with stomach cancer. Share you cancer story to help others recognizing as early as possible the stomach cancer symptoms! The faster cancer is recognized, the better your chances for curing cancer.

Early cancer detection is your best bet to a successful stomach cancer treatment. If you are having one of the symptoms in the list below without any specific reason, then maybe you are facing early stomach cancer warning signs.

An simple endoscopic examination of the stomach will give a fast and clear answer whether you have stomach cancer. An endoscopy is an examination where a doctor will look inside your stomach pushing a flexible scope down your throat.

7 possible stomach cancer warning signs

1. Changes in the stools: diarrhea and/ or constipation can be one of the symptoms of stomach cancer. Never let a constipation take longer than a few days!
    
2. Blood in the stool: Seeing blood in your stool could be a symptom of stomach cancer. In my father’s case it was a sign of his cancer, which was located in his colon. Sometimes blood in the stool is only visible with a laboratory test.
    
3. Loosing weight/being anorexic without trying: If you are loosing weight and are not on a diet nor are you increasing your daily activities or exercises, you may be feeding a cancer. Again, weight loss can be caused by many other diseases both physically as mentally.
    
4. Nausea and/or vomiting: Feeling nauseous and vomiting lasting more than a day could be a symptom of stomach cancer. You also have to know that elderly people do suffer more from nausea than younger people, so again: nausea and vomiting is no clear indication of any cancer. But you should see your doctor and insist you get to the bottom of it.

   Vomiting will surely occur if you have a cancer in the top of your stomach.
    

5. Loss of appetite for more than 2 days is always an indication that something is wrong, both mentally or physically.
    
6. Feeling full or bloated:

   Feeling bloated after eating is a more common symptom of stomach cancer. Feeling bloated in general can have many other causes than having cancer.

   Feeling full after eating less than usual can indicated a cancer is located somewhere in the abdomen.
    

7. Feeling tired for no apparent reason could be an early sign for cancer but can have lots of other reasons.

Stomach cancer diagnosis

Unfortunately it is as you above very difficult to immediately understand that the above signs indicate you have stomach cancer.

In most cases only abdominal pains or discomfort triggers people to get care. So don’t wait until you have a severe pain: go and see your doctor when you are experiencing one of the above 7 stomach cancer warning signs!

We read this stomach cancer story at our metastatic liver cancer site. It seems to be written by a medical student and it is one of the rare stomach cancer stories people have shared with us so far.

Azlin says:

I saw my grandpa having a small tumor in the stomach. It spreads to colon, colorectal, lung and finally the heart.

It’s very very painful,even with the morphine.

At times, it’s very painful for the medical staff to bear seeing this agony.

We add to that: even when you have the pain under control, you need to also cope with the side effects of these pain killers. The main problem is that pain killers cause constipation so you need to closely monitor how regular the stools are.

Sounds easy but you have to know that when the next day the pain becomes stronger, more painkillers need to be given and more constipation is most likely to happen: you need to constantly adapt to a new situation (as if having the stomach cancer isn’t stressful enough already).

Please share your stomach cancer story so others can benefit from what you have gone through.

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