Stomach cancer, its mortality rate can now be ranked in the top three malignant tumor mortality rates.
As a malignant tumor with a high incidence, in the early stage of gastric cancer, there will not be too many obvious symptoms, and it is not easy to detect, and most of them belong to advanced gastric cancer when they are found, and most of them can only be conservatively treated at this time.
However, there are data that prove that most early gastric cancers undergo radical treatment under endoscopy, and their 5-year survival rate can exceed 90%, while if advanced gastric cancer is carried out, even if it is a comprehensive treatment based on surgery, its 5-year survival rate is less than 30%.
This also shows that if ----- stomach cancer can be detected and treated early, the mortality rate can be greatly reduced.
In the face of stomach cancer, why has Japan become the biggest winner?
According to the data, japan's 5-year survival rate of stomach cancer can reach 80%, far more than Other countries such as China and the United States.
But the problem is that although the Japanese diet seems to be light, it is actually not so healthy, such as tempura and fried, high-calorie fat, such as miso soup, ramen, etc., which Japanese people love to drink, and the salt content is also quite high.
These foods will more or less plant a "time bomb" for stomach cancer.
But why is japan's stomach cancer treatment so anti-natural?
In fact, Japan, like the mainland, is also a high incidence of gastric cancer, as early as the 1960s, Japan was over 40 years old to check stomach cancer, the early detection rate is also more than 60%.
The most critical and important reason why the fatality rate of stomach cancer is much lower than that in China ----- a comprehensive census.
According to the data, in Japan, any Japanese person over the age of 40 will regularly go to the hospital for gastroscopy.
Gastroscopy can bring people a certain discomfort, but Japanese people have generally become accustomed to this type of test, and if they can detect stomach cancer early and early, and actively treat it, the cure rate will be higher.
At the same time, the national also attaches importance to helicobacter pylori screening.
According to studies, Helicobacter pylori belongs to a class of carcinogens, Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers, but there have been different opinions on whether it can cause stomach cancer.
Since 2013, Japan's national health insurance has also begun to pay for the radical treatment of stomach ulcers, as long as the citizens who are 12 years old or older need to go to the hospital to screen for Helicobacter pylori, which greatly reduces the chance of stomach cancer.
The popularity of refrigerators has also helped to reduce the incidence of stomach cancer
In addition, some scholars believe that Japan began to popularize refrigerators as early as the 1970s, which also reduced the occurrence of stomach cancer to a certain extent.
What the? Refrigerator? Are you sure you made no mistake?
The advantage of the refrigerator is that it can better preserve leftovers and food, so people don't need to take as many preservatives, including salt, to pickle food.
Of course, this speculation is only theoretically analyzed, and there is no large-scale clinical trial and data theory to support it.
What can we do to reduce stomach cancer?
Of course, this article is not just about praising Japan, and I don't want to boil a pot of Bushido soup, but I really want to learn something from Japan.
In fact, in the face of stomach cancer, the level of treatment in Japan is not the key, the key is how Japan is to reduce the occurrence of gastric cancer step by step.
Although the incidence of stomach cancer in China is lower than in Japan, considering the large population base, the number of stomach cancers in China accounts for almost half of the world's population.
And what we can see is that the early screening of stomach cancer is very important and critical.
The reason why many patients find that stomach cancer is advanced stomach cancer is because there is no early detection of gastric cancer in the early stage.
Therefore, for people with high incidence of gastric cancer, Helicobacter pylori infection, or have suffered from atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcers, gastric polyps and other gastric inflammatory diseases.
Or if there is stomach cancer patients in the first-level relatives in the family, as well as high-risk groups such as other high-risk factors for gastric cancer, it is recommended that they need to be screened for gastric cancer in time.
If you wait until symptoms such as weight loss, gastrointestinal bleeding, and epigastric discomfort appear, and then come late to go for the examination, I am afraid it is not too late.
bibliography:
【1】Asaka, M. and K. Mabe, Strategies for eliminating death from gastric cancer in Japan. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci, 2014. 90(7): p. 251 - 8.