The stomach is a very powerful organ, it can accommodate and digest a lot of things, and it is also a very fragile organ......
Many people feel that stomach cancer is far away from themselves, in fact, Chinese people especially attract stomach cancer "like"! April 9 is World Stomach Day, today I will tell you about stomach cancer!
Every 1 minute, 1 Chinese dies of stomach cancer
Let's take a look at this chart first, it is clear that the incidence of stomach cancer in East Asian countries is unbeatable.
China, Japan and South Korea are all high-incidence areas of stomach cancer because of the huge Chinese population, almost half of the world's stomach cancer patients are in China. Gastric cancer is one of the malignant tumors with the highest incidence and mortality rate in the world, with about 1.2 million new cases of gastric cancer in the world every year, of which China accounts for about 40%, which brings a huge burden to families and society.
About 70% of patients with early-stage gastric cancer feel that "everything is normal" or only have some symptoms similar to those of a normal gastric disease. These mild manifestations are easy to ignore, and the result is that a misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, and by the time the typical symptoms appear, they are often already in the advanced stage, or even in the late stage.
Therefore, the proportion of early-stage gastric cancer in mainland China is very low, only about 20%, and the overall 5-year survival rate is less than 50%. In 2019, there were 421,100 deaths of stomach cancer among ≥ 25-year-olds in China, and on average, one Chinese died of stomach cancer every minute!
4 types of people are stomach cancer reserves
4 types of people are stomach cancer reserves
Why does stomach cancer "favor" Chinese? This is inseparable from the life and eating habits of Chinese people. Especially the 4 types of people who have these behaviors are simply lighting the lamp in the dark night, hoping that the robber of stomach cancer will come to the door!
01
Eating too salty
Stomach cancer is most closely related to diet. The dietary guidelines recommend that each person consume no more than 5 grams of salt per day, which is simply the amount of a beer bottle cap. Heavy dishes, pickles, salted fish and meat...... Do you often appear at the dinner table?
High-salt diets don't directly cause stomach cancer, but they can damage your stomach lining, making it easier for carcinogens to invade your body and increasing the risk of atrophic gastritis.
Among them, nitrite contained in pickled foods can react with amines, the decomposition products of egg whites, in the stomach to form carcinogens nitrosamines, which may also increase the risk of stomach cancer.
02
Infection with Helicobacter pylori
The high incidence of gastric cancer in Chinese people is definitely related to Helicobacter pylori. It is listed as a first-class carcinogen by the World Health Organization and is a clear risk factor for gastric cancer, and Helicobacter pylori infection increases the risk of gastric cancer by 2.7~12 times.
The white paper "Prevention and Control of Helicobacter pylori Infection in China" pointed out that the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori among mainland residents is nearly 50%, and the infection rate of different groups is between 35.4%~66.4%.
Not using chopsticks, often eating out, chewing and feeding, are all ways to infect Hp, and the most terrible thing is that once someone in the family is infected with Hp, it is easy to infect the whole family!
03
Addicted to tobacco and alcohol
Smoke not only hurts the lungs, but also hurts the stomach. Nicotine can stimulate the gastric mucosa, resulting in gastric mucosal ischemia and hypoxia, and can also relax the pyloric sphincter, resulting in the reflux of bile and duodenal fluid into the stomach, causing gastric mucosal erosion and bleeding.
The ethanol in wine can thin the gastric mucosa and necrosis and shed mucosal epithelial cells, which in turn can cause symptoms such as stomach pain and acid reflux.
04
Have a family history of relevant medical conditions
The occurrence of gastric cancer has a significant family clustering phenomenon. If there is a family history of cancer, especially if the first-degree family member has stomach cancer, the risk of stomach cancer is 2~3 times higher than that of other people.
It is urgent to protect the health of the "stomach".
Stomach cancer is not far from Chinese, and modern people are more or less a little stomach disease, so we should be more careful! Protecting "stomach" health is protecting health!
01
If your stomach is upset, don't always put up with it
The onset of early gastric cancer is insidious and lacks typical symptoms, and many people do not take the distress signal seriously, and it is too late when the symptoms are obvious.
The stomach needs our attention, don't be patient anymore! Be alert to 5 signs of the transformation of stomach disease into stomach cancer:
◆ Change in the nature of pain: pain becomes constant and irregular.
◆ Lump in the upper abdomen: A lump with a hard texture and painful squeezing is felt in the heart socket.
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◆ Sudden weight loss: short-term rapid weight loss, significant weight loss.
◆ Black stool: Black stool due to non-food or drug reasons may be due to cancerous gastric ulcers.
For stomach distension, acid reflux, and heartburn, you can prepare some home medicines such as gastric mucosal protectors and antacids such as Oak to strengthen the barrier function of the mucosa.
02
Establish awareness of early screening
In recent years, thanks to the popularity of gastroscopy, the proportion of early-stage gastric cancer has been increasing year by year. Endoscopic and endoscopic biopsy is currently the gold standard for diagnosing gastric cancer, and it can be diagnosed for most early-stage gastric cancers.
Both men and women, as long as they are over 40 years old and have any of the following 5 items, early screening for gastric cancer is recommended:
◆ Unhealthy diet (preference for high salt, pickled diet, smoking, drinking, etc.);
◆ Patients with Helicobacter pylori infection;
◆ Previous stomach precancerous diseases such as chronic atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric polyps, postoperative residual gastritis, hypertrophic gastritis, pernicious anemia, etc.;
◆ First-degree relatives of gastric cancer patients.
The occurrence of stomach cancer is by no means overnight, please give the stomach a little more attention, and don't let it suffer all the time!