Can gastric ulcer turn into gastric cancer?

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In clinic, gastric ulcer is a very common gastric disease, and many people in peacetime because of improper diet will also induce gastric ulcer, but gastric cancer is several times more serious than gastric ulcer disease, therefore, whether gastric ulcer will turn into gastric cancer, please see the analysis below.

Can gastric ulcer turn into gastric cancer?

First of all: gastric ulcer will turn into gastric cancer, but not all people will suffer from gastric cancer after suffering from gastric ulcer. The causes of gastric cancer include gastric ulcer and gastric polyps. Although adenomatous or villous polyps account for a small proportion of gastric polyps, the canceration rate is 15% - 40%. The canceration rate is higher when the diameter is larger than 2cm.

Second: gastric ulcer, the traditional concept that it is easy to malignant into cancer, but modern scientific research has changed this traditional view. A clinicopathological comparative study of benign and malignant gastric ulcer found that only a few cases had the clinicopathological characteristics of transition from chronic gastric ulcer to ulcerative gastric cancer, and the average malignant transformation rate of all cases was only 3. 48%。 Studies suggest that the probability of canceration of chronic gastric ulcer is low, and it does not play a dominant role in the pathogenesis of gastric cancer. So the probability of gastric ulcer becoming gastric cancer is very, very low!

Finally: gastric cancer originates from the mucosal epithelial cells on the surface of the gastric wall, and can occur in all parts of the stomach (the pyloric area of the gastric antrum is the most, the cardia area of the gastric fundus is the second, and the body of the stomach is a little less). It's true that gastric ulcers turn into stomach cancer. General malignant ulcer is easy to canceration.

matters needing attention

In fact, gastric ulcer will turn into gastric cancer. Therefore, in life, patients with gastric ulcer should not only actively cooperate with the treatment, but also eat more selenium food.