What are the real factors that lead to liver cancer? To prevent liver cancer, you must first understand the 8 major causes

my country is a country where liver cancer is common. Once diagnosed with liver cancer, the situation is very serious. In order to prevent liver cancer, we need to treat the groups of people most likely to be infected so that we can prevent it before it happens. There are five groups of people who are most likely to be infected with liver cancer:

Smokers are more likely to develop liver cancer

Category 1: Hepatitis patients

Epidemiological statistics show that areas where hepatitis B is prevalent are often also high-incidence areas for liver cancer. People who have had hepatitis B are indeed more likely to develop liver cancer than those who have not had hepatitis B. The risk is as high as 10.7 times. Some scholars believe that the way hepatitis B virus causes liver cancer is that hepatitis B virus first causes hepatitis, which in turn causes cirrhosis, causing atypical proliferation of liver cells, and then developing into liver cancer; other scholars believe that chronic hepatitis can directly cause liver cancer without going through the cirrhosis stage. However, there is one point in their different views that is consistent: hepatitis B virus may be the main initiating factor among the many factors that cause human liver cancer.

Category 2: Smoking people

People with alcohol addiction have a very high incidence of liver cirrhosis, and the relationship between liver cirrhosis and liver cancer is very deep. If you add a lot of smoking, it will accelerate and aggravate the formation of liver cirrhosis and promote the occurrence of liver cancer. The incidence of liver cancer in my country is gradually increasing. Experts point out that the prevention of liver cancer is necessary. Only better prevention can avoid its occurrence.

The third category: alcoholics

Everyone must know the saying "alcohol is harmful to the liver". This is because ethanol, the main component of alcohol, will be metabolized through liver detoxification, and the intermediate product acetaldehyde produced by metabolism will have a direct toxic effect on liver cells. People's long-term and large-scale alcohol intake will undoubtedly increase the burden on the liver and accelerate liver damage. In addition, alcohol can stimulate the secretion of the pituitary gland, accelerate the rate of cell division, and increase the susceptibility to cancer.

Category 4: People with uncontrolled eating habits

There are two types of this group of people. One type is those who like to eat smoked, grilled, fried and pickled foods. If they often eat these foods, a large amount of carcinogens will remain in the liver, increasing the liver's detoxification function. If this continues, the patient will develop liver cancer. Another type of patients like to "eat and drink indiscriminately" and like to eat some wild game. These wild animals contain a large number of viruses and parasites. Many cooking methods cannot kill these substances that are harmful to the human body. This is another major factor leading to liver cancer.

Category 5: Middle-aged and elderly people

Most liver cancers occur after the age of 40, because the effects of carcinogenic factors require a process of accumulation, which can even last for decades. Therefore, most liver cancer patients are middle-aged and elderly people, and the age group with a high incidence is between 50 and 60 years old. In addition, the occurrence of liver cancer is also related to the decline of the human immune function. After middle age, the thymus gradually shrinks, so the cellular immune function closely related to the thymus endocrine system also gradually weakens. The human body cannot effectively reject abnormal cells, and cancer takes the opportunity to germinate.

In life, in addition to alcoholism, there are many other risk factors that lead to liver cancer. Don’t think that everything will be fine as long as you don’t mix alcohol with other drinks. If you engage in the following behaviors, you will not be able to escape liver cancer.

8 risk factors for liver cancer

In fact, in life, in addition to alcoholism, there are many other risk factors that lead to liver cancer. Don’t think that everything will be fine as long as you don’t mix alcohol with other drinks. If you engage in the following behaviors, you will not be able to escape liver cancer.

1. Excessive smoking: Nicotine contained in cigarettes and ethanol, a metabolite of alcohol, are extremely harmful to the liver and are one of the main risk factors for causing disease and inducing cancer.

2. Eating processed foods: These "foods" are usually high in calories, lack of nutrients, high in starch and fat, and full of chemicals, which are harmful to the human liver and have no benefits.

3. Love to eat greasy food: Oil is indispensable in life; fat is one of the essential nutrients for the human body. Appropriate intake of fat-containing foods can provide energy for our body and maintain the normal physiological functions of the human body. However, eating too much greasy food with high fat content is a taboo for healthy diet!

4. Taking medicines indiscriminately: Avoid taking other medicines on your own except for the medicines prescribed by the doctor, because taking multiple medicines is prone to drug interactions and affects the liver's ability to metabolize medicines. When people with liver disease go to the doctor, they should tell the doctor all the medicines they are currently taking, so that the doctor can use them as a reference when prescribing.

5. Drug addiction: The liver is the "chemical factory" of the human body. The transformation and synthesis of various substances absorbed by the human body are completed by the liver. The liver is also the largest detoxification organ in the human body, responsible for breaking down toxic substances absorbed by the human body. The alcohol and drugs mentioned above may cause certain damage to the liver, not to mention the "drugs" that we change color at the mention of!

6. Lack of sleep: If you don’t get enough sleep and don’t rest when you should, it will cause a relative lack of blood flow to the liver, affecting the nutrition and moisture of liver cells, leading to a decrease in resistance. For those infected with hepatitis B virus, the already damaged liver cells will be difficult to repair and may even worsen.

7. Sitting for a long time: Joints, tendons, and ligaments belong to the liver system, and are the structural basis and important channels for the liver to vent and release. Sitting for a long time makes many people's joints, tendons, and ligaments stiff, losing flexibility, and making the channels in the liver's vent and release system blocked. Therefore, we often feel that the more we sit and the less we exercise, the more depressed or irritable we will be.

8. Seven emotions stagnation: Liver qi stagnation, whether fast or slow, will reflect a series of physical diseases, stomachache, abdominal pain, loose stools, headache, chest tightness, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, uterine fibroids, pigmentation, high blood lipids, fatty liver, high blood pressure, etc. Most people often cannot withstand the impact of repeated anger and anger, which will lead to liver qi rebellion and liver yang surge, which is very harmful to the liver and people.