What causes nasopharyngeal cancer and how to prevent it

What causes nasopharyngeal cancer? How to prevent it?

Nasopharyngeal cancer is actually very common in our daily life, but many people "turn a deaf ear" to it and fail to discover its existence in the early stage. Many people may have experienced nosebleeds, which are often considered to be "getting angry", but few people can imagine that it is related to "cancer".

The characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are that the incidence rate in men is higher than that in women. It can occur in all age groups, but the peak age is 45-60 years old.

It is mainly related to the following factors:

1. Family inheritance. The cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has obvious familial clustering.

2. Smoking. Many nasopharyngeal cancer patients have the habit of smoking, so this is also the most important factor in the occurrence of the disease.

3. Pickled food. Clinically, through research, we know that people who often eat pickled food such as salted fish, pickled meat, pickled vegetables, etc. are more likely to develop nasopharyngeal cancer. The nitrite content in food is relatively high. During the cooking process, high concentrations of nitrosamines and dinitrosopyrazine will be analyzed, which are very easy to cause cancer.

4. Epstein-Barr virus infection. Through investigation and research, we know that cancer cells contain Epstein-Barr virus DNA molecules, and most nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients have elevated levels of Epstein-Barr virus antibodies in their serum.