Question
True regarding the carcinoma of the organ shown in the photograph below ?
A. Twice more common in males as compared to females
B. H.Pylori increases the risk
C. Smoking increases the risk.
D. All of the Above.
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Ans:D.)All of the above.
The carcinoma shown in the picture above is stomach carcinoma.
Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is cancer developing from the lining of the stomach.
Risk Factors:
- Infection by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which accounts for more than 60% of cases.
- It occurs twice as common in males as females. Estrogen may protect women against the development of this cancer form.
- Most patients are elderly at diagnosis.
- Smoking increases the risk of developing gastric cancer significantly.
- Foods including smoked foods,salt and salt-rich foods, red meat, processed meat, pickled vegetables.Nitrates and nitrites in cured meats can be converted by certain bacteria, including H. pylori, into compounds that have been found to cause stomach cancer in animals.
- Other risks include diabetes,pernicious anemia, chronic atrophic gastritis,Menetrier’s disease (hyperplastic, hypersecretory gastropathy), and intestinal metaplasia.