How can liver cancer be prevented? These habits lead to a high incidence of liver cancer

The main reason why many liver cancer patients are unable to detect the disease in its early stages is that the early symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious, and it is already in the late stages when it is discovered. Whether liver cancer can be detected in time is the key to treatment, which has a lot to do with people's health awareness. So what are the early symptoms of liver cancer?

1. Weight loss and fatigue.

After contracting liver cancer, patients are more likely to experience weight loss and fatigue than before. The cause of fatigue is unknown. It may be due to digestive disorders, nutritional absorption disorders leading to insufficient energy, or liver cell damage and decreased liver function, resulting in metabolic disorders, certain toxins cannot be inactivated in time, or necrosis of liver cancer tissue releases toxic substances. Weight loss is also a common symptom of liver cancer patients, which is caused by damaged liver function and decreased digestion and absorption function. As the disease progresses, the degree of weight loss may worsen, and cachexia may occur in severe cases.

2. Pain in the liver area.

Patients generally experience pain in the liver area, but many patients do not pay attention to it. Pain in the liver area is generally located in the right rib or under the xiphoid process, and the pain is intermittent or persistent. It is dull or stabbing, and the patient may feel discomfort in the right upper abdomen for a period of time before the pain. The pain may be mild or severe or relieve itself in the short term. The main cause of the pain is the rapid enlargement of the tumor, which compresses the liver capsule and causes traction pain. It can also be caused by the necrosis of the tumor irritating the liver capsule. A small number of patients experience severe pain in the liver area spontaneously or suddenly after liver puncture, mostly due to rupture and bleeding of cancerous nodules on the surface of the liver. If accompanied by a drop in blood pressure and shock, and bloody fluid in the abdominal puncture, it means that the cancerous nodule is severely ruptured and bleeding. In this case, emergency rescue is required.

In fact, in life, in addition to smoking and drinking, there are many other risk factors that lead to liver cancer. If you are involved in the following behaviors, you will not be able to escape liver cancer.

1. Love to eat greasy food: Oil is indispensable in life; fat is one of the essential nutrients for the human body. Appropriate intake of foods containing fat 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 eating!

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

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

5. 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.

6. Addicted to drugs: 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 are likely to cause certain damage to the liver, not to mention the "drugs" that we change color at the mention of!

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 will make many people's joints, tendons, and ligaments stiff, lose flexibility, and make 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.

How can liver cancer be prevented?

If you can take charge of your own prevention of liver cancer, you can do as much as possible within your control. Every time you change a bad habit, you will be one step away from cancer. The specific cancer prevention methods are as follows:

1. First of all, you need to adjust your mentality when encountering things. Experts point out that people with a family history of hepatitis B virus infection, if not properly controlled, the chance of developing liver cancer is 20 times that of the average person. If coupled with a bad mentality, the chance is even higher.

2. Throw away moldy food at home. Aflatoxin contaminating these foods can cause liver cancer. In areas with a high incidence of liver cancer, the degree of aflatoxin contamination is higher than in other areas. So eat more fresh food.

3. Maintain a healthy weight, neither too thin nor too fat, to prevent malnutrition or fatty liver disease.

4. In addition, regular physical examinations are the simplest way to detect liver cancer early.