What causes lymphoma?

Lymphoma is a malignant tumor that mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people. The annual incidence rate in my country is as high as 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the mortality rate is quite high. Here we suggest that you learn more about the main causes of lymphoma and strengthen prevention in your life. In addition, develop the habit of regular physical examinations to strive for early detection and early treatment to avoid misdiagnosis and harm to physical and mental health.

The main causes of lymphoma are as follows:

1. Physical causes (radiation). The incidence of lymphoma is not only related to the dose of absorbed radiation, but also to the age at the time of exposure. The incidence of lymphoma is higher in people under 25 years old exposed to radiation than in other groups. The impact of medical radiation on the incidence of human tumors has received increasing attention, especially high-dose radiation has a promoting effect on the occurrence of human lymphoma.

2. Chemical causes: Among the types of chemical carcinogens, alkylating agents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and aromatic amine compounds are related to the causes of lymphoma.

3. Immune factors. Malignant lymphoma is a malignant tumor of the immune system. Immunodeficiency is one of the important causes of malignant lymphoma. Under normal circumstances, the human immune system has an immune surveillance function and can clear mutated or cancerous cells in the body. Immunodeficiency patients are prone to opportunistic infections, especially viral infections.

4. Genetic factors. There are many reports on the relationship between genetic factors and the causes of lymphoma. Sometimes, obvious family clustering can be seen, such as brothers and sisters may suffer from malignant lymphoma successively or simultaneously.

Prevention of Lymphoma

A) Develop good living habits, quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption. The World Health Organization predicts that if people stop smoking, the number of cancer cases in the world will be reduced by 1/3 in 5 years. Secondly, do not drink excessively. Tobacco and alcohol are extremely acidic substances. People who smoke and drink for a long time are very likely to develop an acidic constitution.

B) Do not eat too much salty and spicy food, and do not eat overheated, overcooled, expired or spoiled food; the elderly and weak or those with a genetic disease should eat some anti-cancer food and alkaline food with high alkaline content as appropriate to maintain a good mental state.

C) Have a good attitude to deal with stress, combine work and rest, and avoid excessive fatigue. It can be seen that stress is an important cause of cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that stress leads to physical weakness due to overwork, which in turn causes decreased immune function, endocrine disorders, metabolic disorders in the body, and the deposition of acidic substances in the body; stress can also lead to mental tension, causing qi stagnation and blood stasis, and internal toxic fire.

D) Strengthen physical exercise, improve physical fitness, exercise more in the sun, and sweat more to excrete acidic substances in the body with sweat, avoiding the formation of an acidic constitution.

E) Live a regular life. People with irregular living habits, such as singing karaoke all night, playing mahjong, and staying out all night, will increase the acidification of the body and be more likely to get cancer. You should develop good living habits to maintain a weakly alkaline body and keep various cancer diseases away from you.

F) Do not eat contaminated food, such as contaminated water, crops, poultry, fish eggs, moldy food, etc. Eat some green organic food to prevent diseases from entering the body through the mouth.