How to prevent gastric cancer? It can be divided into two categories

The etiology of gastric cancer is complex, and the exact pathogenesis is still unclear. In order to reduce the morbidity and mortality of gastric cancer, prevention should be carried out. Primary prevention is etiological prevention, which means trying to control and avoid known suspected carcinogenic factors. Secondary prevention is to find susceptible individuals in the natural population and conduct regular follow-up examinations in order to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment.

Gastric cancer causes harm to the patient's body, and in severe cases it may be dangerous and life-threatening. Therefore, for the sake of physical health, it is necessary to take preventive measures, which can effectively reduce the patient's chance of getting sick. So what are the preventive methods for gastric cancer? Let's learn more about it below.
1. Primary prevention (1) Maintain a healthy diet and avoid eating too much spicy food and smoked products. Moderate smoking and drinking, eating at regular times, and avoiding overeating can reduce the incidence of gastritis and gastric ulcers.
(2) Traditional methods of preserving food such as salting or smoking are not recommended. It is recommended to choose freezing for fresh-keeping storage.
(3) Reduce salt intake in food. Daily salt intake must be controlled below 6g.
(4) Eat fresh vegetables and fruits regularly.
(5) Eat more milk and dairy products.
(6) Eat more fresh fish, meat, etc., which are high in protein.
(7) Eat some garlic regularly.
(8) Eliminate HP infection in the stomach. If long-term treatment fails to cure gastric ulcers or gastric polyps larger than 2 cm, timely surgical treatment is required. Patients with atrophic gastritis should undergo regular follow-up gastroscopy, which is very effective in prevention.
(9) Live a regular life. People with irregular living habits, such as singing karaoke all night, playing mahjong, and staying out all night, will increase the acidification of the body and be more likely to get cancer. You should develop good living habits to maintain a weakly alkaline body and keep various cancer diseases away from you.
2. Secondary prevention : Follow up susceptible cases: Patients with atrophic gastritis, gastric polyps, gastric ulcers, residual stomachs, moderate to severe atypical hyperplasia, and incomplete colonic intestinal metaplasia are known to have a high incidence of gastric cancer. Therefore, active treatment and regular follow-up examinations of the above-mentioned precancerous conditions and precancerous lesions are another way to detect gastric cancer at an early stage. Some scholars believe that chronic gastric ulcers, multiple gastric polyps, single polyps with a diameter greater than 2 cm, and severe atypical hyperplasia that have not healed after long-term medical treatment or have severe scarring can be treated surgically because they have a high tendency to become cancerous.