Tumor of the stomach

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it is one of the prebeloved centers of the neoplasie, tumor of the stomach it has the role of more frequent malignant tumor.

Lesions of the stomach exist that predispose the insorgence of tumors, like the poliposi and. An other predisposing factor is the presence of chronic. The more frequent localizations are pylorus and the prepilorica region. Other frequently hit region is the small curve.

More common the benign tumors of the stomach are i lipomi, i and i fibrobiomi, between that malignant i sarcomas (fibrosarcoma, angiosarcoma, mixosarcoma), carcinoma, lymphoma.

Shape of all the particular one of neoplasia gatrica is carcinoma early of the stomach (Early gastric cancer).

Tipologia

Three fundamental types of tumor exist, in decreasing order of frequency are:

• scirrosa, it infiltrates the wall of the stomach, that it becomes, if invades the stomach, this hard and thick becomes a tube rigid, inelastic, with one cavity much narrow one
• vegetante, it is introduced like a carnosa mass, motivatings force, with a cauliflower or fungus aspect, that it grows towards the cavity of the stomach, often going encounter to necrosis
• gelatinous, it has an aspect traslucido, it stretches to prematurely exceed the wall of the stomach, interesting sierosa membrane peritoneale.

Causes

They have not been characterizes factors to you that explain the insorgence of the tumor, but the frequency of gastric carcinoma it increases with passing of the age and is more frequent in the male sex.
Still controversial piccanti foods or alcools are the alimentary factors () and tabagismo, therefore like the genetic factors, which blood group To.

Symptoms

The tumor to the stomach passes in asymptomatic way, showing one single symptomatology in advanced phase. This can be similar to one benign disease (, ); only lately compre the epigastrico pain.
In advanced phase lack of appetite and loss of weight are associated, until cachexia. Other symptoms are the presence of in and the signs of acute anemizzazione.
The presence of metastasis it determines the appearance of symptoms also in others you leave of the organism: liver, boneses, , .

Therapy

The radical therapy to the tumor today remains that surgical one. The survival is low much, because of one be of inoperability of a high percentage of patients (65%) at the moment of the diagnosis.