ObjectiveTo understand the relation between blood glucose regulating hormones and gastric cancer, so as to provide some new ideas for diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer. MethodBy reviewing and screening relevant domestic and foreign literatures, the latest researches on the relation between blood glucose regulating hormones and gastric cancer were summarized. ResultsThe insulin, glucagon, adrenaline, growth hormone, and the other blood glucose regulating hormones all played the roles in promoting the occurrence and development of gastric cancer. However, glucocorticoids and somatostatin were protective hormones that maintained gastric homeostasis and inhibited the proliferation of gastric cancer cells. ConclusionBlood glucose regulating hormones play some roles in diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer, but specific mechanisms such as interaction between blood glucose regulating hormones, role of glucose metabolism in biological behavior of gastric cancer, and effect of blood glucose regulating hormones on oncogene initiation are unclear, so prospective clinical control studies still need to be studied.
