@article{10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11,
  author = {Showkat Ahmad Bhat and Manzoor R. Mir and Sabhiya Majid and Muneeb U. Rehman and Sonallah Kuchy and Bilal Ahmad Sheikh and Ishraq Husain and Bhudev C. Das},
  title = {Environmental Factors in Etiology of Gastric Cancer},
  journal = {Advances in Biochemistry},
  volume = {3},
  number = {5},
  pages = {51-56},
  doi = {10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11},
  eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ab.20150305.11},
  abstract = {Among all the cancers Gastric cancer has been reported to be a highly prevalent malignancy In Kashmir valley, constitutes about 30%-40% of all malignancies. Cancer is consistently considered as significant environmental issue besides other etiological factors. In our study the incidence ratio among genders remained 3:1(male to female). More incidents were found in 60-64 years of age, 34.5% patients reported weight loss and the weight difference was about 10kg from stage I to Stage IV, 62% of the patients were illiterate, 59.5% of patients were from poor and middle class and 51% patients had faced the Water pollution. Major portion 53 %of patients belongs to farmers& house wives among these 38.6%, 12.2%, 8.4%, 21.6%& 18.8% had exposure to Pesticides/insecticides, Fungicides, Chemicals, Fertilizer, Manure respectively. At the time of diagnosis patients presented with multiple symptoms like dyspepsia 76.5%, loss of appetite 35.5% and vomiting 42.0%. On physical examination, anaemia was the most common sign and was present in 163 81.5%, ascites was 11.1%, epigastric mass in 9.9% Regarding distribution of cancer within the stomach, distal stomach was involved in 45.5%, proximal stomach in 42.0% of patients; Middle stomach and Whole stomach were involved in 6.0% each. Among the common symptom, ulceroproliferative type was seen in 35.5%, ulcerative lesions were 30% and infiltrative were in 7.0 %.Various perceptible effects during our study provides significant evidence to conclude that in gastric cancer etiology, environment plays an important role.},
 year = {2015}
}

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TY  - JOUR
T1  - Environmental Factors in Etiology of Gastric Cancer
AU  - Showkat Ahmad Bhat
AU  - Manzoor R. Mir
AU  - Sabhiya Majid
AU  - Muneeb U. Rehman
AU  - Sonallah Kuchy
AU  - Bilal Ahmad Sheikh
AU  - Ishraq Husain
AU  - Bhudev C. Das
Y1  - 2015/09/26
PY  - 2015
N1  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11
DO  - 10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11
T2  - Advances in Biochemistry
JF  - Advances in Biochemistry
JO  - Advances in Biochemistry
SP  - 51
EP  - 56
PB  - Science Publishing Group
SN  - 2329-0862
UR  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ab.20150305.11
AB  - Among all the cancers Gastric cancer has been reported to be a highly prevalent malignancy In Kashmir valley, constitutes about 30%-40% of all malignancies. Cancer is consistently considered as significant environmental issue besides other etiological factors. In our study the incidence ratio among genders remained 3:1(male to female). More incidents were found in 60-64 years of age, 34.5% patients reported weight loss and the weight difference was about 10kg from stage I to Stage IV, 62% of the patients were illiterate, 59.5% of patients were from poor and middle class and 51% patients had faced the Water pollution. Major portion 53 %of patients belongs to farmers& house wives among these 38.6%, 12.2%, 8.4%, 21.6%& 18.8% had exposure to Pesticides/insecticides, Fungicides, Chemicals, Fertilizer, Manure respectively. At the time of diagnosis patients presented with multiple symptoms like dyspepsia 76.5%, loss of appetite 35.5% and vomiting 42.0%. On physical examination, anaemia was the most common sign and was present in 163 81.5%, ascites was 11.1%, epigastric mass in 9.9% Regarding distribution of cancer within the stomach, distal stomach was involved in 45.5%, proximal stomach in 42.0% of patients; Middle stomach and Whole stomach were involved in 6.0% each. Among the common symptom, ulceroproliferative type was seen in 35.5%, ulcerative lesions were 30% and infiltrative were in 7.0 %.Various perceptible effects during our study provides significant evidence to conclude that in gastric cancer etiology, environment plays an important role.
VL  - 3
IS  - 5
ER  - 

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