Avaliação do consumo alimentar e dos fatores de risco e proteção dos portadores de câncer gástrico atendidos na fundação centro de controle de oncologia do estado do Amazonas

Abstract

Several studies have shown a close relationship between genetic predisposition, environmental factors, lifestyle and carcinogenesis. It is known that 80% to 90% of cancers are linked to environmental factors. Among the environmental factors to diet stands out as a predominant factor in the emergence of stomach cancer. In this context, the objective of this study was to evaluate the food consumption and possible factors related to cancer of stomach, holders of adults with primary gastric cancer, attended the Foundation Centre for Control of Amazons Oncology - FCECON. To obtain data profile of food and socio-economic population of 25 patients were used: Survey of Consumer Food Frequency-QFCA, Social Survey - Economic-demographic - ISED and for the classification of nutritional status was used Body Mass Index - BMI current and preceding the diagnosis of the disease as well as weight, height and age. We used the program EPI INFO - version 3.4.3 where they calculated the absolute frequencies for simple and qualitative data on the average, median and standard deviation (SD), for the quantitative data. When to the average weight difference between the current and previous disease, was used t-Student test in significance level of 5%. In this study, the gender with greater predominance was the male with 80% of cases. It was observed low consumption of foods considered to be at risk as canned, sausage, smoked, barbecue and no artificial sweetener. High tendency to daily consumption of chips (40%), manioc flour (84%), beef (44%), coffee (96%), fresh vegetables - smell of pepper (48%) and fruits - bananas (56% ), And low consumption of protectors foods like yogurt (8%), oil (0%), whole foods (0%).With regard to harmful vices (72%) patients reported that smoke or have smoked and 88% reported consumption of alcoholic drink, preferably beer and rum. Among the professions found, the majority (52%) was of farmers and workers of the construction that could be in environments that exposed to toxicity and radioactivity. The results suggest that the traditional dish of the Amazon, consisting of fried beef, white rice, manioc flour, beans, vegetables and fruits, moderate amounts of coffee and milk habits are identified, also as the standard diet Brazilian, with specific regional and the wasteful consumption of manioc flour with a large intake of glycosides. From a nutritional concluded that the diet is inadequate and unprotected for cancer, because despite not contain smoked foods, canned, salted and embedded, is rich in fats, red meat, low in fiber and monounsaturated fats.