Risk Factors
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition. The risk factors for stomach cancer include:
- Age: over 50
- Gender: twice as common in men
- Geography: Japan, Korea, parts of Eastern Europe, and Latin America experience higher rates
- Race: higher rates in Hispanics and African-Americans
- Helicobacter pylori infection
- Diet: smoked, salted, pickled food and meat, high starch/low fiber foods
- Tobacco and alcohol abuse
- Previous stomach surgery
- Pernicious anemia
- Menetriers disease
- Blood type A
- Familial cancer syndromes: hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer and familial adenomatous polyposis
- Family history of stomach cancer
- Stomach polyps
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