Example cancer of the stomach or acute gastritis?
In its early stages, gastric cancer, poor in Mexico affects the year to 20 persons per 100 thousand inhabitants, may be confused with acute gastritis, as they have similar symptoms such as pain in his stomach like a person experienced when hungry, indigestion, heartburn and vomiting, with or without blood and stool output reddish brown due to minor bleeding.
Gastric cancer is caused by the growth of cancer cells in the lining and the stomach wall, while the gastritis is an inflammation that occurs in the latter area.
Because of this similarity, there are people with gastric cancer who lose valuable time, along with the possibility that your treatment is curative rather than palliative.
“When the doctor of first contact is detected, usually the patient has a tumor progressed with symptoms such as fluid in the abdomen, weight loss of more than 20 kilos and swollen lymph left side of the neck, “the oncologist Sergio Cruz Professor, Faculty of Medicine UNAM.
Cruz says the specialist gastroenterologist is appropriate to treat such conditions and who should try to rule out either. The first thing to check this is the patient’s age, then, if you are over 50 years, the chance of having cancer is higher.