Dangerous diseases: stomach cancer of the 4th degree and pancreatic cancer.

Annually about 700,000 people die from stomach cancer. This disease can be treated in 20% of cases and only at the initial stages. Unfortunately, in 80% of cases the tumor is detected at the last stage of its development.

Grade 4 stomach cancer means that malignant cells grow lightning and uncontrolled, while capturing and damaging nearby organs and causing a fatal outcome.

The disease is equally affected by both men and women. Most often, this oncological disease is observed in persons who have reached the age of 50 years.

Causes

Until the end, identify the factors that contribute to the onset of the disease is not possible. However, it should be noted that gastric cancer of the 4th degree can occur against the background of the following diseases: chronic gastric ulcer, menethritis gastritis, stomach polyps, pernicious anemia and chronic gastritis.

With malnutrition, the use of rough and monotonous food, the abuse of alcohol and smoking, the risk of this disease increases.

The likelihood of this ailment decreases with frequent consumption of fruits and dairy products.

Symptoms

At the initial stages , stomach cancer of the 4th degree causes the patient a general malaise and discomfort in the abdomen. As the tumor begins to increase in size, a person loses his appetite, he has an unpleasant burp and a feeling of heaviness in his stomach. During meals, there may be problems associated with swallowing food and even vomiting. The patient quickly loses body weight, becomes pale.

Treatment

Cancer of the stomach of the 4th degree is treated exclusively by surgical methods. In most cases, the entire stomach with adjacent tissues and lymph nodes is removed. In the event that the disease affects the neighboring organs, they are also partially removed.

If the removal of the tumor is not entirely possible, then the operation is performed to temporarily alleviate the suffering of the patient.

Rehabilitation of the patient

Eating at the remote stomach should be fractional and dietary.

Irradiation and chemotherapy are used as auxiliary methods in complex treatment, but there is no certainty that there will not be a relapse, since this disease easily metastasizes.

Pancreatic cancer of the 4th degree is most often detected in people of advanced age (after 60 years).

Symptoms

The first sign of the disease is mechanical jaundice, which proceeds without pain attacks and high fever. It arises as a result of disturbances in the process of outflow of bile, which are due to the compression of the bile duct by the tumor. The yellow shade of the skin is gradually replaced by olive, then dark-green, yellow, sclera of the eyes and mucous membranes become. Along with this, patients complain of loss of appetite, weakness, nausea, abdominal pain, fever. The feces become colorless and the urine dark.

Treatment

Stage 4 of the pancreatic cancer can not be treated, since the tumor goes to the lymph nodes, which complicates the treatment process. To alleviate the condition of the patient, apply the method of surgery and chemotherapy.

Statistics

Without surgery , the life expectancy of a patient with this diagnosis is 6 months, after surgery - 2 years, and after using palliative methods that facilitate a person's life - 6-12 months. Patients who underwent radiation therapy live on average 12 months, and those who underwent palliative surgery for 16 months.

Pancreatic cancer predictions are unfavorable. Often patients with stage 4 disease die from lightning intoxication, cachexia, intestinal obstruction and jaundice. In 8-35% of cases patients after radical surgical intervention live no more than five years.