"The last point is, if you have friends over forty years old, it's better to get a gastroscopy early. If you have direct relatives with digestive tract cancer, it's best to move forward with an endoscopy, perhaps at 35 years old. But don't do it too frequently, generally once every three years is enough because stomach cancer is the slowest among all cancers. That's all the advice I can give. From both Chinese and Western medicine perspectives, prevention and treatment methods are actually quite similar."
This is the last piece of advice from Zhang Lingchuan.
The most direct way to check for stomach cancer is through gastroscopy.
But frequent gastroscopies can damage the stomach, and the personal experience is not pleasant either.
It's recommended to do it about once every three years.
"Indeed, there's no need to do a gastroscopy every year; it's one of the slowest cancers. Once every three or five years is enough."
