How long does gastric ulcer become stomach cancer?

Gastric ulcer may not develop into gastric cancer, such as superficial gastric ulcer, after standardized, full course of treatment, most patients can achieve cure effect, will not transform into gastric cancer. However, if the patient does not actively carry out treatment, usually do not pay attention to diet management, gastric ulcer recurrence, there may be cancer, but the specific time needs to be determined according to the severity of the patient's condition and personal constitution, can not be generalized. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of gastric cancer, patients diagnosed with gastric ulcer should follow the doctor's advice according to the course of medication, and regularly go to the hospital for screening, in order to timely find precancerous lesions, timely treatment.