Gastric cancer is the leading cause in the deaths caused by cancer in China. The highest level area of mortality of gastric cancer is located in the eastern and northern China, such as Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu Province...Gastric cancer is the leading cause in the deaths caused by cancer in China. The highest level area of mortality of gastric cancer is located in the eastern and northern China, such as Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu Provinces, etc, while the lowest mortality area is located in Guangdung and Guangxi Provinces, In recent years the mortality of gastric cancer tends decrease steadily. The sex ratio is 2.06:1 (male:female), the mortality of gastric cancer remarkably increases at the age after 35 years old. The mortality of the minority nationality of Kazak is the highest, while that of the Miao nationalily is the lowest. The lower the level of economic income, the higher the mortality of gastric cancer is. There is also a relationship between the profession and the mortality of gastric cancer. The dietary factors are very important in the occurrence of gastric cancer: salted food, lack of protein, lack of fresh vegetables and fruits, irregular dietary habits, over eating at one time, heavy salty taste, eating quickly, eating piping hot food, eating hard food, etc; these factors are high risk factors of gastric cancer. Mentally, as having suffered severe mental impaction, often burdened of unhappy things, and belonging to the depressive mental type, these are high risk factors also. The distribution of mortality of gastric cancer is related to the display of the tertiary period stratum, and to the amount of intake of trace elements such as Zn, Ni, Se, etc. There is also a relationship between the occurrence of gastric cancer and chronic atrophic gastritis. The preventive measures of gastric cancer are: less or not intake of salted food; avoidance of heavy salty taste; more intake of rich protein food such as fresh meat, fish, eggs, milk and soybean products; taking more fresh vegetables and fruits; keeping an optimistic view at any time; improving water quality, etc.展开更多
文摘Gastric cancer is the leading cause in the deaths caused by cancer in China. The highest level area of mortality of gastric cancer is located in the eastern and northern China, such as Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu Provinces, etc, while the lowest mortality area is located in Guangdung and Guangxi Provinces, In recent years the mortality of gastric cancer tends decrease steadily. The sex ratio is 2.06:1 (male:female), the mortality of gastric cancer remarkably increases at the age after 35 years old. The mortality of the minority nationality of Kazak is the highest, while that of the Miao nationalily is the lowest. The lower the level of economic income, the higher the mortality of gastric cancer is. There is also a relationship between the profession and the mortality of gastric cancer. The dietary factors are very important in the occurrence of gastric cancer: salted food, lack of protein, lack of fresh vegetables and fruits, irregular dietary habits, over eating at one time, heavy salty taste, eating quickly, eating piping hot food, eating hard food, etc; these factors are high risk factors of gastric cancer. Mentally, as having suffered severe mental impaction, often burdened of unhappy things, and belonging to the depressive mental type, these are high risk factors also. The distribution of mortality of gastric cancer is related to the display of the tertiary period stratum, and to the amount of intake of trace elements such as Zn, Ni, Se, etc. There is also a relationship between the occurrence of gastric cancer and chronic atrophic gastritis. The preventive measures of gastric cancer are: less or not intake of salted food; avoidance of heavy salty taste; more intake of rich protein food such as fresh meat, fish, eggs, milk and soybean products; taking more fresh vegetables and fruits; keeping an optimistic view at any time; improving water quality, etc.