Gastric cancer is a complex disease with many factors affecting it. Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and accounts for over 700,000 deaths per year. Understanding the symptoms and diagnosis of this cancer could give information that everyday people could use to check for signs of gastric cancers. Along with that, identifying the risks associated with gastric cancer could possibly give usable prevention techniques that could save lives around the world. There is no question that prevention is the best type of treatment for all types of cancers including stomach cancer. Some lifestyle and dietary factors have shown different associations with gastric cancer risks and gastric cancer mortality. Smoking, Helicobacter pylori bacterium infection, salt intake, lack of nutrition, and physical activity all affect how susceptible a person is to gastric cancer. Research has shown that decreasing some of the known risk factors along with the eradication of H. pylori could greatly reduce the risk of gastric cancer and the mortality rate of the disease. Reducing the gastric cancer rate could do a big service to people all around the world. It could save them from death and possibly gastric cancer treatment.
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Lifestyle Factors and Gastric Cancer.
Gastric Cancer is a big problem all around the world today. It is the fourth most common cancer and accounts for the second most cancer deaths with over 700,000 people dying every single year (Shiotoni, Cen, & Graham, 2013). According to the Mayo Clinic gastric cancer is uncommon in the United States and on the decline, but it is much more common in other areas of the world (2013). Two thirds of stomach cancer cases happen in developing countries and are important public health burdens that need to be addressed (Shiotoni, Cen, & Graham, 2013). Symptoms of gastric cancer vary and become amplified from early stages to late stages (Jiang, 2012). The lack of symptoms in early stages of stomach cancer makes it hard to detect.
