The incidence of gastric cancer among young people is increasing.
The youngest patient with gastric cancer was a 22-year-old college student. At that time, Li Mou had stomach pain that could not be relieved for a month. Accompanied by his family, he went to Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University for treatment, and was finally diagnosed with "stomach cancer". According to experts, fortunately, the patient came to the hospital in time, and the diagnosis was still in the early stage of gastric cancer. After surgery, chemotherapy and other treatments, Li's condition improved.
Lili is not so lucky. She is only 23 years old. She has been feeling stomach pains for more than a month. She has also started to lose weight inexplicably. She lost ten pounds in weight. She didn't pay much attention to it at first. It was not until recently that she found black stools in her stool, and then she went to Zhongda Hospital for examination and was diagnosed with "advanced gastric cancer". Because the patient did not come to the doctor in time, the best time for surgical treatment was missed.
It is understood that Lili is doing copywriting work in the company, and breakfast is often served casually at roadside stalls. Because there is only one hour for lunch, rice peel, cold skin, malatang, and casserole have become her main choices. Among them, she especially loves malatang. In order to make up for the lack of lunch, Lili often eats very hearty dinners.
The commonality of young gastric cancer patients: irregular diet!
Many of these young patients have one thing in common - irregular life and irregular diet. For example, there is no time to eat breakfast, lunch is improvised, dinner is for entertainment, and supper is eaten at stalls. The habits of these urban office workers are exactly the "killers" that hurt the stomach.
Nutritious diet and irregular work and rest are relatively common among young people at present, which is also an important factor in young people getting stomach cancer. However, many young people who have stomach discomfort will think that it is a common small stomach problem. They will not immediately think of going to the hospital for examination and treatment. Instead, they will go to the pharmacy to buy some stomach medicine to deal with it, and some people even take painkillers. As everyone knows, some gastric cancer patients miss the best treatment time. "Don't think you won't get tumors when you're young,"
In recent years, the trend of gastric cancer getting younger has become more and more obvious. There are as many as 5 gastric cancer patients who have been hospitalized successively in the medical oncology department of the hospital in the past two years. Therefore, relevant experts warned the general public that treating their stomachs at will, not only can not nourish the stomach, but also easily delay the disease, which is a thing that is not worth the loss.
Smoking, drinking, five times the risk of stomach cancer
Mental stress, uncontrolled drinking and smoking are also factors that induce gastric cancer in young people. Relevant studies have confirmed that smoking doubles the relative risk of gastric cancer, and the relative risk of gastric cancer in people who both smoke and drink increases by five times. Men who smoke are twice as likely to die from stomach cancer as men who do not smoke. Drinking alcohol can also damage the gastric mucosa and promote the absorption of carcinogens. In particular, studies at home and abroad have shown that stomach problems are closely related to psychological factors. When people are fatigued and work pressure is too high, it will lead to gastrointestinal indigestion, gastric ulcer, gastritis, etc., and severe gastric ulcer is considered to be a precancerous lesion of stomach tumor.
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