Abstract:

Introduction: In our country, it is among the cancers found with stomach cancer in the south-eastern and eastern Anatolian regions. Studies have found that nutrition is an important factor in the etiology of stomach cancer. In this study, the impact of dietary habits on stomach cancer was studied. Methods: The study was carried out at the Department of Oncology at the Dicle University School of Medicine Hospital between 2004-2005. In the case-controlled study, 81 patients with stomach cancer (MCH) respectively, 40 healthy volunteers (Control-1), 40 other cancer patients (Control-2), were assessed as 3 main groups. The survey was carried out using the 'Mad Cancer Tracking Form' (MKTF) and 'Food Survey Form' (BAF). In these surveys, the relationship between the demographic and nutritional characteristics of the participants was assessed using the Pearson Chi-Square test. Results: The demographic and nutritional variables of the three main groups were compared. Different results were found. While some variables were associated with stomach cancer, some were found irrelevant. Advanced age, male sex, rural life, household and agricultural professions, low socio-cultural-socio-economic levels, living in crowded families, blood group A, vegetable-fruit-limited nutrition, poor mouth hygiene and insufficient toothbrushing habits found meaningful in MCHs. MCHs were found to consume less food and beverage groups, such as meat, salty-salted meat products, salted cheese, salty salamura olive, coffee, red pulp pepper, fruit, salad, dry. In the MCH, the consumption of sandwich oven (cooked in the fire) bread and solid-fluid oil was quite meaningful.

Keywords: