Gastric Tumor Removal
Gastroenterologists in Pune: Dr. Nachiket Dubale
Tumors can form anywhere inside your body and this can result in an unusual tissue growth. The cells start building in a regular form and only a fixed quantity of cells are present. There is an excess of cells in case of mild tumors. Stomach cancer starts when an overflow of cells starts to form in the inner lining of your stomach and those only cells develop into a tumor.
Some risk factors that can cause Gastric Tumors areas:
- Overweight or obese, smoking
- Abdomen surgery for an ulcer
- An high intake in smoked, salted food, and pickled food
- Type-A blood, hereditary causes
- Exposure to asbestos
- Chronic H.pylori infection inside the stomach
- Autoimmune gastritis
- Long-term medication such as proton pump inhibitors
Gastric Tumor Removal: Gastroenterologists in Pune-Dr. Nachiket Dubale
While small tumors do not give rise to any symptom but large and ulcerated tumors are symptomatic. Some serious signs that you might observe when your stomach tumors grow areas:
- Blood in stools, stomach pain
- Trouble swallowing, heartburn
- Feeling tired or weakness
- Yellowish eyes or skin
- Constipation or diarrhea, vomiting
- Swelling inside the stomach
- Weight loss for no reason
Signs of ulcerated tumors are abdominal pain essentially at epigastrium, bleeding ulcers, and anemia due to blood loss for a longer time. Signs of large tumors are nausea of different intensity, bloated feeling, early satisfaction, weight loss, and vomiting.
DIAGNOSIS
Harmless tumors are largely asymptomatic and remain undiagnosed for a long period of time. For unusual stomach polyps, there can be dimming of mouth. Your doctor will start physical inspection and would be suggested some tests:
- Upper endoscopy: A long tube with a camera inside your throat will check your stomach.
- Blood tests: Tests are done to check whether there are any signs of cancer or tumors.
- CT scan: Powerful X-ray is done to check the inside of your stomach.
- Biopsy: Tiny piece of tissue of stomach is taken and checked under a microscope for checking any cancer cells.
- Upper GI series test: One has to start drinking barium and this coats your stomach and so it will visible on X-ray.
TREATMENT
Operation is the treatment to extract your stomach tumors. Some may be healed with medicines prior to surgery. Apart from this radiation therapy, chemotherapy and biological therapy are some of the other ways. Harmful tumors are cured with surgery or chemotherapy. Surgery is also effective in accessing the type and kind of tumor.
The most common method is the TNM system.
T means tumor and governs the size of the tumor.
N depicts the spread of cancer to lymph nodes.
M stands for metastasis.
Surgery is meant to remove tumors for healing and diagnostic purposes.
Diagnostic tumor removal: After taking a specimen of tissue, it is examined to check abnormalities. Several types of biopsies are done such as needle biopsy, aspiration biopsy, excisional biopsy, and incisional biopsy.
Therapeutic tumor removal: If surgical removal is settled then an oncologist will extract your whole tumor. The tumor is removed to ease the patient’s pain and other signs linked with this issue. Most tumors do not tend to grow dangerous. If the underlying cause is not correctly treated, then the recurrence rate is lowest. Some tumors that are likely to grow cancerous should be managed properly post-surgery. In such cases, there should be regular monitoring with endoscopic investigation.
