What causes liver cancer? 3 liver cancer prevention tips to know early

What causes liver cancer? Liver cancer is a common cancer tumor disease because there are many reasons that may cause liver cancer. However, there are also many different ways to prevent liver cancer in life. Here, we will review the causes and prevention methods of liver cancer.

Causes of Liver Cancer

1. Some patients with cirrhosis or hepatitis have basically stable conditions and do not have symptoms of chills or fever, but they may suddenly experience pain or severe pain in the liver area. This is generally an early symptom of liver cancer and patients should pay attention to it.

2. Adults over 30 years old may feel a lump in the right upper abdomen and upper abdomen. The lump is hard in texture, uneven in surface, and has an obvious tendency to increase with continuous observation, but the patient has no obvious discomfort.

3. Symptoms such as abdominal distension, repeated diarrhea, and indigestion are often treated as gastroenteritis, but the effect is not significant or cannot be cured. Patients often have symptoms of dull pain in the liver area and their bodies gradually become thinner.

4. Pain in joints all over the body, especially in the waist and back, accompanied by anorexia, irritability, discomfort in the liver area, and poor response to anti-rheumatic treatment.

Next, let’s see what we should do to prevent liver cancer.

How to prevent liver cancer

As the age of liver cancer onset is getting younger, patients with liver disease over 30 years old should have regular checkups to prevent liver cancer. Most cases detected in liver cancer screening are early-stage liver cancer with a small tumor size, which can generally be removed locally. Since the resected liver part is small, it is more tolerable even for patients with a certain degree of cirrhosis.

1. Preventing hepatitis: Using hepatitis vaccines to prevent hepatitis and thus liver cancer has become one of the most promising ways to prevent liver cancer, but it is estimated that it will take decades to see results. It has been proven that hepatitis B vaccines are effective in preventing hepatitis. However, from a comprehensive perspective, prevention of HCV and HDV still needs to be considered. In addition to injecting hepatitis B vaccines, prevention of viral hepatitis also requires attention to the control of other transmission routes, such as diet, surgery, blood transfusion, injection, acupuncture and hairdressing.

2. Control hepatitis C: Among liver cancer patients with negative hepatitis B surface antigen in my country, 28.5% are positive for anti-hepatitis C virus, which shows that hepatitis C virus is also an important carcinogenic factor. From the current clinical patients, it is found that 80% to 90% of hepatitis C is transmitted through blood and blood products. Therefore, strictly controlling the source of blood transfusion and minimizing blood transfusion or the use of blood products are effective measures to reduce hepatitis C and control the occurrence of liver cancer.

3. Appropriate selenium supplementation: For people with low selenium level, use selenium-rich yeast, selenium polysaccharides, and selenium-rich salt to supplement selenium and increase blood selenium levels.

4. Others: Preventing water pollution, paying attention to hygiene, improving nutrition, combining work and rest, enhancing immune function, eliminating drug abuse and abandoning bad habits can also effectively prevent the occurrence of liver cancer.

Prevention of liver cancer starts with timely treatment of various liver diseases.