Atrophic gastritis may turn into gastric cancer in a year, but the chances are very small. Atrophic gastritis that develops into gastric cancer usually undergoes these processes of atrophic gastritis, intestinal epithelial hyperplasia, heterotrophic hyperplasia and finally gastric cancer. The one-year progression to gastric cancer may be due to a family history of gastric cancer, poor lifestyle, or failure to comply with medical advice for treatment or follow-up.
1. Family history of stomach cancer: digestive tract tumors have obvious family aggregation, if someone in the immediate family suffers from stomach cancer or other digestive tract tumors, the chances of atrophic gastritis developing into stomach cancer will be higher.
2. Bad lifestyle: staying up late for a long time, smoking, alcoholism and irregular diet for a long time, eating high sugar, heavy oil, heavy salt, spicy and stimulating food may increase the burden of stomach, destroy the rhythm of gastric secretion, aggravate the damage of mucous membrane, and induce mucous membrane cancer.
In addition, if you don’t use chopsticks during meals, it is easy to infect Helicobacter pylori bacteria with each other, which may increase the possibility of gastric cancer after infection.
3. Failure to follow the doctor’s prescription for treatment or follow-up: when suffering from atrophic gastritis, gastroscopy can be repeated once every half a year for timely monitoring of intestinal epithelial hyperplasia or heterogeneous hyperplasia. Failure to follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment or follow-up and allowing it to develop may result in failure to detect the development of atrophic gastritis into gastric cancer in a timely manner.
There may be other reasons for atrophic gastritis to develop into gastric cancer in one year. If atrophic gastritis is diagnosed, early and standardized treatment is recommended to reduce the adverse effects of the disease.