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Early diagnosis of stomach cancer-full recovery
By admin | November 30, 2007
In the treatment of all malignant disease including stomach cancer early diagnosis is extremely important.
Because, if diagnosed early stomach cancer can be treated with a grat chance of full recovery which happens in 80 – 90 % of all cases.
First symptoms
Benign stomach tumors are extremely rare.Their prevalence is around 2%.It means that 98 & of stomach tumors are malignant. You should know that there is no age limit for stomach cancer but it does occur most frequently between the ages of 40 and 60.
Men have much higher risk of getting stomach cancer than women.
What about the symptoms?
Some experts argue that the first symptom of stomach cancer can be unpleasant breath,and even burping.
Other early symptoms may include pain behind the chest bone,vomiting, painful swallowing.
Anemia can also indicate that something is wrong because of the ‘hidden bleeding’ that occurs in cancer victims.
Why gastroscopy ?
Early diagnosis of stomach cancer means a great chance in full recovery. Because of that you should raise your awareness about those early sypmtoms,and go to see your doctor for once in a while.
There are a million examples of people surviving this malignant disease with much less pain just because they were aware of the importance gastroscopy has.
Remember that the next time you say to yourself that you don’t have time for strange medical exams.
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