[Documentary Prime] ‘It’s dangerous!
2024-03-02 13:11:03
‘Your stomach’
However, there is a disease that becomes the seed of stomach cancer, and that is gastritis.
If you ignore the warnings your stomach sends, such as indigestion and heartburn, you will inevitably be exposed to the threat of stomach cancer, which is called the silent killer.
Atrophic gastritis, commonly called chronic gastritis, is estimated to affect one in four Koreans.
The risk of stomach cancer in atrophic gastritis is 6 times higher, and in the case of intestinal metaplasia in which atrophic gastritis worsens, the risk of stomach cancer is as low as 10 times and as high as 20 times.
An average of 77 people a day, or about 30,000 people a year, are diagnosed with stomach cancer.
I suffer from chronic indigestion and heartburn to the extent that I take digestive pills and digestive medicine on a regular basis.
She, who usually eats cup noodles for lunch because she doesn't know when customers will come, was diagnosed with chronic atrophic gastritis and reflux esophagitis.
Greece, a country with a long life expectancy, has a stomach cancer death rate per 100,000 people that is half that of Korea.
