Table 3 Groups of symptoms of gastric cancer according to the Uganda Cancer Working Group

I

New dyspepsia after 40 years; with indigestion and no past history suggestive of PUD

II

Insidious: tired, weak and 3As- anemia anorexia asthenia

III

Obstruction; dysphagia fullness belching and vomiting

IV

Lump in epigastrium palpable in about 30% of patients with cancer of the stomach.

V

Silent but presents with ascites, jaundice, Krukenberg’s tumors, Trousseaus’ and Trossier’s sign.