Symptoms and risk factors for stomach cancer

Each year, about 3,000 Romanians die from gastric cancer, two-thirds are men. Usually, the disease is diagnosed late, when surgery is complex and involves many risks, and life expectancy drops significantly. Therefore, the medical world attention on the risk factors for stomach cancer and recommends a more balanced life. Here's what you need to be careful:
1. Helicobacter pylori infection.Dangerous for both gastric and duodenal ulcers, this infection is carcinogen-order factor in cancers of the stomach. This blood antibodies or bacteria in the stomach can be easily identified using noninvasive test today and cheap. Treatment involves a course of antibiotics during two weeks reduces the risk of gastric cancer.
Broccoli sprouts prevent stomach cancer caused by Helicobacter pylori
2. Western-style diet.Modern diets, abundant in fat, protein, or smoked red meat, rich in nitrates and nitrites, but low in fruits, vegetables and vitamins is widely recognized as predisposing the genesis of digestive cancers. Conversely, eating a healthy, balanced, calorie is a shield for all types of digestive cancers.
3. resection gastric ulcer.People who have had prior surgery for resection of the stomach are at risk in addition to 10-15 years after this surgery for gastric cancer due to changes induced by the deregulation of digestive juices circuit. These patients are advised to come to endoscopic control to reveal a possibly as early gastric cancer.
4. heredity.If one or more family members have been diagnosed with stomach cancer, it is appropriate that other blood relatives to conduct an endoscopic control after 50 years. In this case, the risk of developing gastric cancer is 3 times the general population risk.
Gastric cancer. Symptoms and treatment
The symptoms of gastric cancer- Decrease appetite;- Difficulty swallowing;- Permanent feeling of lump in the throat;- Weight loss;- Anemia;- Fatigue;- Pain in the upper abdomen;- Heartburn;- Jaundice (yellowing of eyes and skin);- Blood in the stool or black stool.

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