8x model passed away at the age of 37 due to stomach cancer, what do experts recommend?

Nhu Huong passed away at the age of 37 after more than a year of fighting the disease.stomach cancer. She passed away at the age of 37, leaving behind two young sons. Before that, during her treatment, despite having to undergo chemotherapy and losing her hair, Nhu Huong remained optimistic. She recorded moments during her treatment.

Who is susceptible to stomach cancer?

Sharing about stomach cancer, according to Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Cam Phuong - Director of the Center for Nuclear Medicine and Oncology, Bach Mai Hospital, stomach cancer is a malignant disease in the stomach. Up to now, no one has been able to confirm the exact cause of stomach cancer for any reason.

It is only known that the cause of stomach cancer is often found in high-risk subjects such as: people with chronic stomach ulcers, people infected with HP virus that have not been treated and often have recurring symptoms leading to patients having ulcers as well as atrophy of the stomach lining.

In addition, people with a family history of cancer, especially stomach cancer, smokers, people who eat moldy foods, people who drink alcohol... are susceptible to stomach cancer.

Stomach cancer is difficult to diagnose early because the early stages have vague symptoms like gastritis. Most patients have symptoms such as indigestion, upper abdominal pain or other discomfort.

As for clear symptoms, it is already in the late stage, when the patient has pain in the epigastric region, weight loss, may have black stools or feel lymph nodes... at that time the disease is in the late stage and the prognosis is very difficult.

It is very difficult to distinguish between early and late stages because it depends on each person, on the histology, on the damage of the cancer. If the type is very malignant, it progresses very quickly and forms a tumor very quickly. If the histology type progresses slowly or in the elderly, it progresses more slowly and takes longer.

Nhu Huong passed away at the age of 37 after more than a year of fighting stomach cancer.

How to detect stomach cancer?

In line with this view, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Van Hong - Former Deputy Head of the Department of Gastroenterology - Bach Mai Hospital said that stomach cancer has similar symptoms to common stomach diseases, making it easy for patients to confuse and only detect when the disease has progressed to the final stage. Therefore, early detection to know the signs of early stage stomach cancer helps patients to diagnose the disease promptly, thereby building an effective treatment regimen.

According to experts, in the early stages of stomach cancer, symptoms are not yet obvious and are mostly detected when cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body. In cases where patients have a history of stomach-related diseases, it is necessary to be careful to have regular medical check-ups to avoid the bad situation of turning into cancer.

Stomach cancer images.

However, according to Dr. Phuong, patients need to pay attention to get a health check-up immediately when detecting some of the following signs of stomach cancer: Weight loss - is one of the basic symptoms of stomach cancer. Abdominal pain begins with intermittent pain, however, the abdominal pain will become more severe when the patient enters the later stages of stomach cancer, even taking medication will not relieve it... In addition, patients have symptoms of loss of appetite, accompanied by difficulty swallowing, feeling that food is always stuck in the throat.

Fullness after eating or feeling full, uncomfortable and nauseous after eating. Then the patient has black stools (Most of these symptoms will appear in people with gastric ulcers as a sign that the disease may have turned into cancer).

Basically, the symptoms of stomach cancer are similar to other stomach diseases, so patients often have a subjective mentality, only going to the doctor when the disease becomes serious.