Some people with GISTs feel tired because they’ve lost blood from the tumor into their stool. They might also cause belly pain, loss of appetite, or weight loss. If a GIST does cause symptoms, they might include throwing up blood, or having bloody or dark colored stools. Sometimes they are found when a person has an exam or test done for another problem. Many GISTs don’t cause symptoms right away. Would you please write down the kind of cancer you think I might have?.Your doctor has ways to help tell what’s most likely to happen with your tumor. Others are more likely to grow and spread quickly. Some are likely to grow and spread slowly. It’s not called liver cancer unless it starts from cells in the liver. So when a GIST spreads to the liver (or any other place), it’s still called a GIST. To doctors, the cancer cells in the new place look just like the ones from the stomach.Ĭancer is always named based on the place where it starts. When cancer cells do this, it’s called metastasis. For instance, GIST cells in the stomach might travel to the liver and grow there. GIST cells can sometimes spread to other parts of the body.
They can crowd out normal cells, which makes it hard for the body to work the way it should. GISTs start when certain cells that help move food through the GI tract begin to grow out of control. GISTs are not treated the same way as these cancers. GISTs are not the same as more common types of cancer that start in the GI tract, such as colon cancer and stomach cancer.
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