FACTORES DE RIESGO PREVENIBLES EN EL CÁNCER GÁSTRICO, UNA ENFERMEDAD SILENCIOSA

Abstract

Gastric cancer has been considered a serious oncological problem and has been positioned among the five most frequent oncological diseases. It has high morbidity and mortality and its presentation is based on the detection of risk factors that can be potentially preventable, among them we find to eating habits, mainly the consumption of substances that activate the inflammatory cascade and cause changes in the gastric epithelium, toxic habits such as alcohol and tobacco consumption and without neglecting Helicobacter Pylori infection, which in our Ecuadorian environment reaches a colonization of the 60 – 70% of the entire population, without a doubt we cannot also leave aside non-modifiable risk factors such as age, sex and genetic predisposition. The signs and symptoms are usually varied and will depend on the severity with which the condition presents and must be related to the patient's clinical history; the two together will give the diagnosis. Prevention and education with patients will make this pathology reduce the present cases; the approach has to be managed from the first level of care.