6 things to know to avoid gastrointestinal cancer

Eat foods that are salted, fermented, smoked and moldy; eat lots of vegetables like broccoli, eggplant .

According to Professor Dao Van Long, former head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi), gastrointestinal cancer is the third most deadly cancer in the world.More than 90% of cancers of this type develop from adenomatous polyps . Therefore, early detection and ablation of adenomatous polyps has a malignant risk that helps reduce the rate of cancer.

If detected early, the disease is almost curable. However, due to the psychological fear of detecting the disease, the patients often do not go to the hospital early, only when they feel unbearable pain, discomfort, loss of appetite, bleeding, weight loss . but it is too late to arrive .

Salt and smoked foods should be restricted.

For prevention, it should be noted:

1. Limit the use of foods containing aflatoxin, nitrosamine (in foods that are salted, fermented, smoked), mold and other toxic substances. Do not use foods that are suspected of being damaged or preserved for too long.
2. Should use vegetables, foods high in fiber, selenium, vitamin A, C can prevent digestive cancer: green tea, broccoli, cereals, green vegetables, eggplant .
3. Use caution when using plastic products to store, cover food; In particular, use plastic products to heat food in the microwave.
4. Minimize tobacco and alcohol.
5. Be careful with all digestive pain; Do not arbitrarily use drugs for digestion.
6. Regular health check up for at least 6 months to a year to detect early treatment of gastrointestinal and cancer diseases.

Early detection of gastrointestinal cancer by screening, periodic health checks, especially in high-risk groups or gastrointestinal symptoms. People at high risk of gastrointestinal cancer are over 50 years old, a family history of relatives with gastrointestinal cancer, a history of gastritis, had found HP bacteria, defecated blood . These In this case, it is necessary to go for colorectal examination, stomach more often to detect the disease early.

Gastrointestinal cancer often shows signs of flatulence, dyspepsia, difficulty swallowing, abdominal pain, vomiting. More severe cases may vomit blood with weight loss, anemia and black stool defecation. Symptoms of this cancer group are mainly disorders of defecation, constipation, diarrhea; in which the most characteristic is defecation of blood, defecation disorder .