Gastric carcinogenesis: diet as a causative factor.
Gastric cancer is a very typical cancer related to life styles, including nutrition and dietary conditions. Cigarette smoking has also been pointed out as an enhancing factor in gastric cancer development. Improvement of dietary conditions, regular dietary habits including lower salt, nitrite and nitrite intake and balanced nutritious food may be factors suppressing the incidence of gastric cancer. At the same time, advances in technology for early diagnosis and early surgical treatment have elevated the cure rate of gastric cancers. From both primary and secondary cancer prevention aspects, gastric cancer is now a conquerable disease.
Sugimura
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National Cancer Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Wakabayashi
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D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia; D008769:Methylnitronitrosoguanidine / Q000633:toxicity; D009153:Mutagens; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012307:Risk Factors; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*
D009153:Mutagens; D008769:Methylnitronitrosoguanidine