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Did you know adopting a healthy diet is one of the best ways to potentially reduce your risk factors for stomach cancer?

As with most cancers, doctors may not always be able to explain why one person gets stomach cancer and another does not. Stomach cancer is cancer that starts everywhere in the stomach. It is not very easy to diagnose stomach cancer because it has progressed slowly over the years and people do not always experience symptoms in the early stages and therefore always go unnoticed.

Although the incidence of stomach cancer has declined worldwide, it still remains the fourth most common cancer in India and the third most common in men.

Gastric or gastric cancer is sometimes associated with known risk factors that increase the likelihood of developing the disease. Knowledge of gastric cancer risk factors is therefore a step in the right direction. Some risk factors, such as family history, are beyond your control, but other risk factors, such as diet and tobacco smoking, are things you can absolutely influence.

It is important to realize that avoiding risk factors does not guarantee that you will not get cancer. Also, most people who have a certain risk of causing cancer will never get the disease.

• Healthy diet: Eating foods high in fiber, vitamin A and vitamin C can reduce the risk of stomach cancer.
• Reduce salt intake: Excessive salt intake has been identified as a potential risk factor for stomach cancer. Therefore, reduce or reduce the amount of salt you add to your diet.
• Include a lot of fruits and vegetables in your diet: Try to include different fruits and vegetables in your daily diet. Citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, and grapefruits can help.
• Quit Smoking: Quitting smoking is probably the best decision you can make for your health. It reduces the risk of many cancers, including cancer of the stomach, head, and neck, larynx, esophagus, lungs, bladder, kidneys, and pancreas.
• Drink alcohol: Limit the amount of alcohol you drink and do not use tobacco products.
• Limited intake of canned food: Avoid dirty and pickled food and salted meat and fish.
• Family history of stomach cancer: Talk to your doctor about the risks of developing stomach cancer, especially if you have a family history of stomach cancer, you have probably inherited DNA.

Using the right anti-cancer equipment as a tool is essential for oncologists to help their patients achieve the best possible results.

The most common tools used by doctors include chemotherapy and immunotherapy – two cancer treatments that use very different methods. How are they different?

• Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells – both cancerous and non-cancerous – in the body.
• Immunotherapy helps the immune system better identify cancer cells so they can attack and kill them.

Chemotherapy and immunotherapy may be used alone or in combination, or may also be used in combination with other treatments, such as surgery or radiation therapy.

Chemotherapeutic drugs work as they are given and remain in the body, while immunotherapeutic drugs can stimulate the immune system to continue to have cancer attacks, even after treatment has stopped. Chemotherapy has a faster effect, shrinks tumors, and kills cancer cells while preventing the effects of immunotherapy for a longer period of time.

Cancer cells are not like normal cells in the body. They don’t die normally. They divide quickly, over and over again, constantly mutating and developing an immune system that should protect you from disease and infection.

Immunotherapeutic drugs are designed to expose these abnormal cells to the immune system so that they can destroy them. Immunotherapeutic drugs fall into several general categories:

• Checkpoint Inhibitors: Cancer cells can send signals that deceive the immune system to think they are healthy cells. Checkpoint blockers are designed to interrupt the signal and trigger a response of the immune system against cancer.
• Cytokines: These protein molecules help regulate and regulate the immune system. To increase cancer resistance, cytokines are synthesized in the laboratory and then injected into the body in much higher doses than the body naturally produces.
• Cancer vaccine: These drugs can reduce the risk of cancer by attacking the viruses that cause cancer. They can also activate the immune system to attack cancer cells in a certain part of the body.
• CAR T cells (Chimeric antigen receptor T cells): These are T cells that fight infection, which are taken from the bloodstream, rearranged to attack the cancer cells, and then return to the body. . These modified T cells, called CAR T cells, are designed to attack specific parts of cancer cells.