Sunday, June 5, 2011

Stomach cancer diagnosis


Association with gastric cancer include blood group A and previous gastric surgery 



The breadbasket wall has 5 layers. As a cancer grows deeper into them, the prognosis (outlook) is not as good. The inner layer is the mucosa. This is where breadbasket acid and digestive enzymes are made, and where most breadbasket cancers start. Under this is a supporting layer titled the submucosa. This is surrounded by the muscularis, a layer of muscle that moves and mixes the breadbasket contents. The out most 2 layers, the subserosa and the outermost serosa, behave as wrapping layers for the stomach.

DIAGNOSIS

It is hard to study stomach cancer in its primeval stages. Indigestion and stomach discomfort can be symptoms of primeval cancer, but other problems can cause the same symptoms. In advanced cases, there may be blood in your stool, vomiting, unexplained weight loss, jaundice or pain swallowing.

ENDOSCOPY
This is the most common test utilised to diagnose cancer of the stomach. The endoscope is a thin, flexible plaything with a light and camera at the end. It is utilised to take photographs of the lining of the breadbasket and to take a small sample of cells (biopsy) to be examined under a microscope.

Sometimes the endoscopy plaything has an ultrasound probe at the end, which allows an ultrasound scan  to be done of the breadbasket and surrounding structures. This is famous as an endoscopic ultrasound.

BARIUM MEAL

This test will be done in the hospital x-ray department. It involves drinking a white, chalky liquefied (barium) which helps the gullet and breadbasket to show up on an x-ray.

These are X-rays of the esophagus, stomach, and first part of the intestine taken after the patient drinks a barium solution. The barium outlines the breadbasket on the X-ray, which helps the doctor, using special imaging equipment, to find tumors or other abnormal areas.

GASTROSCOPY AND BIOPSY

This test examines the esophagus and breadbasket using a thin, lighted plaything called a gastroscope, which is passed through the mouth to the stomach. Through the gastroscope, the student crapper look direct at the inside of the stomach. If an abnormal area is found, the student will remove whatever paper to be examined under a microscope. A biopsy is the exclusive trusty way to diagnose cancer. Gastroscopy and biopsy are the best methods of identifying breadbasket cancer.

HEMOGLOBIN ESTIMATION
Reveal anemia in 45% of cases.

TEST FOR OCCULT BLOOD IN THE STOOL

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