Stomach cancer is otherwise known as gastric cancer. The basic pathology is that stomach cancer is that the normal cells of the stomach get converted into cancer cells. It is one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
The most common cancer of the stomach is gastric adenocarcinoma.
Risk factors associated with gastric cancer.
1) Genetic factor
Family history- A blood group person is more prone to get cancer of the stomach.
2) Environmental and dietary factors
Salted pickles, smoked meat and fish, cigarette smoking, poor-quality diets low in Vitamin C and high in starch.
3) Infection
H pylori infection
4) Pre malignant condition such as
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Benign gastric ulcer
5)Previous gastric surgery
6) Smoking
7) Alcohol
Clinical features
Indigestion
Weight loss
Dysphagia
Dyspepsia
Nausea and vomiting
Vomiting of blood (hematemesis)
Malena (blood in stool)
Profound anorexia
Flatulence
On examination anemia, weight loss and palpable mass in the epigastrium may be seen. Jaundice and ascites reveal the spread to liver. Sometimes cancer may spread to left supraclavicular lymph node or umbilicus or ovaries.
Liver, lungs, bone marrow, and peritoneum are the common sites of spread.
Investigations
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
Biopsy
CT to rule out spread
Treatment
Surgery-partial gastrectomy if localized, and total gastrectomy for certain gastric tumors.
Radiation and chemotherapy
Homeopathic treatment.
Since the disease present with too many signs and symptom homeopathy has got a better treatment scope. These will not only prevent the spread but also will improve the quality of life.
In post surgical cases or even after radiation and chemotherapy homeopathy has also got a better treatment protocol to improve the unwanted after-effects of these methods. Usually, patients won't approach to the beginning stage but will approach the homeopathic doctor in terminal stages only. In that stage, the patients may be very weak, with difficulty in eating and drinking. In such cases also the homeopath takes the present pathological symptoms and medicines in low potency or in tincture forms are prescribed. In the majority of the cases, these methods give a better quality of life and survival.
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