Public awareness of the influence of risk factors on the development of gastric cancer

Abstract

Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth most common type of cancer worldwide (about 5.7% of all new cases) and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths. More than one million new cases of GC are diagnosed worldwide each year. Statistically, approximately 1 in 12 cancer-related deaths is related to GC. Altogether in the basis of GC development interaction of three factors are singled out: genetic, presence of H. pylori, and also damaging environmental factors. So, in the majority of patients with such diagnosis in the family anamnesis there are gastric diseases in the closest relatives. Nearly 80% of all neoplasms arise under the influence of environmental factors.