At what age do people get stomach cancer on average?

Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in my country, ranking first in death from digestive tract tumors, with a peak incidence of 50 to 60 years old. The study found that from 1982 to 1999, 182 hospitalized patients under the age of 40 were diagnosed with gastric cancer by gastroscopy, surgery and pathological examination, accounting for 12% of gastric cancer in the same period.

Experts conducted a clinical data analysis and found that gastric cancer is now approaching the younger generation.

The age of gastric cancer onset is 33 years old on average for 98% of the cases. The average time from the onset of symptoms to diagnosis is 8.3 months. Early symptoms are usually latent and non-specific, often similar to gastritis and peptic ulcer, with a short course and low incidence. Clinicians lack vigilance and are prone to misdiagnosis.

Therefore, oncologists suggest that patients with upper abdominal pain, acid reflux, belching, nausea and vomiting, upper abdominal fullness, poor appetite, and weight loss, especially those under 40 years old, should be highly alert to the possibility of gastric cancer. At present, gastroscopy plus biopsy is still the preferred method. Patients with gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers should be strictly followed up with gastroscopy and pathology. In addition, in the population gastric cancer survey, people under 40 years old should also be listed as screening targets, especially those with a family history of gastric cancer, who should be listed as key targets.

The age of gastric cancer patients is getting younger, with some people in their teens or twenties suffering from gastric cancer.

The main risk factors of gastric cancer are: genetic factors, environmental factors, dietary factors, gastric diseases, etc. Some gastric cancer patients are caused by the deterioration of existing gastric lesions. The following are the gastric diseases closely related to gastric cancer:

① Atrophic gastritis;

② Gastric ulcer;

③Gastric polyps;

④Helicobacter pylori infection.

The main treatment for gastric cancer is still surgery, while the auxiliary treatment with traditional Chinese medicine is more effective. For example, ginsenoside Rh2 is effective in assisting the treatment of gastric cancer.