In recent years, with the continuous improvement of people's health awareness, many people will show great fear when facing diseases, and there are many diseases that will directly threaten people's lives, among them, most of them are malignant tumors, and it seems that it is precisely because of this that once their bodies begin to have some abnormalities, people will begin to wonder whether they have cancer.

For example, some patients will find that they have polyps in their bodies, such as stomach polyps, during the physical examination, and they will start to worry about whether the polyps in their bodies may become cancerous.

So, taking stomach polyps as an example, what exactly is it all about? Will it become cancerous?

First of all, you should know that if there are some vegetations on the surface of some organs of the human body, they are called polyps in clinical practice, and polyps are widely distributed, such as nasal polyps, gastric polyps, intestinal polyps and vocal cord polyps, etc., and the polyps in these parts are actually benign in most cases, but if there are some special circumstances, the possibility of cancerous transformation is not ruled out, such as if it appears in parts with more friction, such as gastrointestinal polyps, then the probability of cancerous transformation will increase.

As far as stomach polyps are concerned, there are many reasons for their formation, such as genetic factors, if there is a very common history of polyps in the family, then the probability of polyps in their offspring will also increase, and at the same time, because the eating habits of a family are usually relatively similar, and this similar eating habits are often easy to cause familial cluster diseases, such as polyps, tumors, etc.

In addition, the appearance of polyps is also related to personal living habits, for example, some patients often eat a variety of irritating foods in their lives, such as foods containing alcohol and spicy foods, etc., and these foods are easy to irritate the gastric mucosa, over time, it will naturally induce various inflammations, in the case of inflammation, the body will secrete a large number of inflammatory factors, so it will also stimulate the gastric mucosa, and then vegetations, that is, gastric polyps.

So, can stomach polyps develop into cancer?

In fact, the possibility of cancerous transformation is not ruled out, and polyps that are prone to cancer are generally divided into these conditions.

The 30th case is adenomatous polyp, this polyp has a special feature, that is, it will present atypical hyperplastic lesions, which are precancerous lesions, if not treated, there will be a chance of cancer, and its probability of cancerous transformation is about 0%~0%. Therefore, once the polyp in the stomach is found to be adenomatous, the doctor will most likely recommend surgical removal.

Type 2 polyps are inflammatory polyps, which are usually not accompanied by dysplasia, and have a very small chance of becoming cancerous, and if the symptoms are not very obvious, even if they are not surgically removed, the problem is not very large.

Of course, how long it takes for a polyp to develop into cancer often needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, some people may develop from polyps to cancer in just a few years, while some patients may not develop polyps for decades.

In general, it is not uncommon for polyps to develop cancerous lesions in clinical practice, if there is a family history of malignant tumors such as gastric cancer in the family, then once polyps are found, we must be vigilant, after all, this malignant tumor has a relatively high family genetic tendency, and a family has similar eating habits or living habits, which will also increase the chance of polyps becoming cancerous.

Of course, not all polyps will become cancerous, and not all cancer diseases are transformed from polyps, so we should adjust our mentality, treat the disease objectively and rationally, once the polyp is found, it should be actively treated under the professional guidance of the doctor, and at the same time, it is also necessary to scientifically prevent its further malignant transformation.

Under normal circumstances, as long as you can actively cooperate with the treatment, the vast majority of polyps will not become cancerous and can be well controlled, so you don't need to worry too much.

Proofread by Zhuang Wu