Diet for patients with cardia cancer

After surgery, patients with cardia cancer can continue to eat semi-liquid food, such as lotus root starch, steamed eggs, oatmeal porridge, rice porridge, and mushy noodles, which gradually change from thin to thick. About one month after surgery, they can transition to soft food or even normal diet. Pay attention to eating small meals frequently, and eat 5-8 meals a day as needed. Chew slowly when eating. Do not avoid certain foods. You can eat any food as long as it is light, fresh, nutritious, and easy to digest. Do not eat spicy food, and refrain from smoking or drinking.

1. Change the habit of smoking and drinking, improve water quality, and reduce the content of nitrite in drinking water.

2. Don’t eat too hot food. Eating too hot food can easily burn the esophagus and gastric mucosa, causing inflammation. Over time, the inflammation will slowly turn into cancer.

3. Some people like to eat while squatting, which causes higher pressure on the abdomen and causes food to stay in the esophagus and cardia for a longer time, which may be related to the occurrence of esophageal cancer and cardia cancer.

4. We should popularize cancer prevention knowledge and raise awareness of cancer prevention. We should test susceptible people and conduct regular cancer prevention physical examinations for high-risk groups.

5. Actively treat diseases related to the occurrence of esophageal cancer and cardiac cancer, such as esophageal epithelial hyperplasia, esophagitis, and achalasia.

6. Don’t eat too fast, chew slowly. Eating too fast and swallowing food without chewing it well is not only not conducive to digestion, but also irritates the esophagus and gastric mucosa.

7. It is recommended to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and try to eat less pickled kimchi, pickles, sauerkraut, etc. Do not eat moldy and spoiled food, especially moldy peanuts, corn, etc., which contain a large amount of pathogenic aflatoxin. Do not eat too rough food, it is best to eat less fried food, these foods are not easy to chew, and add some high-quality protein foods, such as eggs, milk, etc.

The first significant epidemiological feature of gastric cardia cancer is its inconsistency with tumors in the distal part of the stomach. In areas with a high incidence of gastric cardia cancer, the incidence of tumors in the distal part of the stomach is very low. Epidemiological and population studies suggest that the predisposing factors, pathological characteristics, and clinical characteristics of gastric cardia cancer are significantly different from those of tumors in the distal part of the stomach. Helicobacter pylori infection is closely related to the occurrence of tumors in the distal part of the stomach, while drinking and smoking are important factors in the incidence of gastric cardia cancer. It is particularly important to emphasize that since the 1980s, the incidence of tumors in the distal part of the stomach has shown a clear downward trend in some countries around the world, especially in the United States, Japan, China, and Europe.

However, the incidence of cardia cancer and primary adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has shown a clear upward trend, especially in white Americans and European countries such as the United Kingdom. Its incidence has increased nearly sixfold in the past 30 years, the fastest growing of all malignant tumors, although the reasons are still unclear. These phenomena suggest that cardia cancer is different from distal gastric tumors and should be treated as an independent disease. Obviously, the epidemiological characteristics of cardia cancer and esophageal cancer are significantly similar, suggesting that the two may have common pathogenic factors. However, the pathogenesis of cardia cancer is poorly understood.

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