MAIN CAUSES OF THE STOMACH CANCER ORIGIN, PRETUMOR NEOPLASM CONDITIONS AND PREVENTION DIRECTIONS

The study presents modern data concerning the place of the stomach cancer among othermalignant neoplasms, causes of its rise, methods of diagnostics and prevention. The studyshows the disease incidence indices, the disease detection in Ukraine and other highlydeveloped countries of the European Union and describes the main directions of thescientific investigations and ways to solve the problem of cancer prevention and earlydiagnostics.The purpose of the article is to analyse the literature data as to the stomach cancer placeamong other malignant neoplasms, causes of its rise, methods of the diagnostics andprevention.Conclusion. The organizational and legislative measures, aimed at efficacy increaseof the preventive steps, concerning malignant tumor neoplasms and stomach cancer inparticular, are absolutely necessary in Ukraine. Information about the factors, whichlead to the tumor disease development, not only increases the percentage of the tumorpathology detection on early stages, but significantly promotes individual prophylaxis.