Understanding the causes of esophageal cancer can help you prevent this disease as much as possible

Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor. This disease will cause certain harm to the patient's body, and the incidence rate is extremely high. If the cause of esophageal cancer is not found out as soon as possible, it may not be possible for people to defend against this disease, and then it will endanger more people. Therefore, everyone should understand the cause of esophageal cancer in order to try to avoid the occurrence of this disease. Let's take a look at the causes of esophageal cancer.

Causes of esophageal cancer include:

1. Overheated, hard, crudely made food, swallowed too quickly, and liking to eat spicy food are closely related, such as liking to drink overheated tea, liking to eat garlic, vinegar and chili, eating small fish with thorns, and not eating three meals on time. In addition, long-term and large amounts of spicy food can also damage the esophageal mucosa and cause secondary cancer. These causes of esophageal cancer are relatively common.

2. Stimulation from tobacco and alcohol. Alcohol is a very important factor in the many pathogenic factors of esophageal cancer. People who drink a lot of beer have a risk of esophageal cancer many times higher than those who do not drink. The risk of esophageal cancer from smoking also increases with the amount of smoking. This is also a cause of esophageal cancer.

3. Improper diet, especially insufficient intake of fresh fruits, vegetables and animal protein, and eating pickled, moldy and other foods containing nitrosamines, nitrates and nitrites and mycotoxins, will increase the incidence of esophageal cancer. This is also one of the causes of esophageal cancer.

The above mentioned are the causes of esophageal cancer. I hope everyone can understand them one by one. As long as people know these causes of esophageal cancer, they can do their best to prevent the disease, and then the incidence rate can be greatly reduced. So if you want to get rid of the interference of this disease, please be more careful about the above causes of esophageal cancer. I wish all patients can fight the disease to the end.