How can we prevent liver cancer? Here are some tips to prevent liver cancer

A British research team recently published a report in the British Medical Journal Open that drinking a certain amount of coffee every day can help reduce the risk of liver cancer, and as the intake increases, the risk will also decrease more. This supports some previous research results that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of liver cancer.

Researchers from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh explored the relationship between coffee drinking and liver cancer. The team conducted a comprehensive analysis of data collected from 26 previous studies involving more than 2.25 million participants. Some previous studies in the United States and Japan have suggested that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of liver cancer.

The results of the new study show that drinking one cup of coffee a day corresponds to a 20% lower risk of liver cancer; drinking two cups of coffee corresponds to a 35% decrease; if drinking up to five cups, the corresponding decrease will even reach 50%.

According to the team, the effects are the same for people who don't have the habit of drinking coffee. Although data show that the more coffee you drink, the greater the risk, there is not much data to confirm the effect for drinking more than 5 cups a day. In addition, even decaffeinated coffee can bring certain benefits, but the effect is not so obvious.

The impact of coffee on human health has not been determined in the academic community. Previously, the International Agency for Research on Cancer under the World Health Organization listed the habit of drinking hot drinks as a factor with a "high carcinogenic potential", believing that drinking hot drinks such as coffee and tea at a temperature above 65 degrees Celsius may cause esophageal cancer.

Oliver Kennedy, one of the authors of the report and a scholar at the University of Southampton, said that the results of this study are not to encourage everyone to drink five cups of coffee a day. More in-depth research is needed to analyze whether there are some potential harms of consuming large amounts of caffeine. There is evidence that certain groups, such as pregnant women, should avoid excessive consumption of such beverages.

Another author, Peter Hayes, professor at the University of Edinburgh, said the next step in the research would be to further confirm the relationship between coffee drinking and liver cancer risk through randomized controlled trials.

How can we prevent liver cancer? Pay attention to the following points in daily life:

1Avoid emotional fluctuations, maintain an optimistic mental state, and try to avoid or reduce various stimulating activities that cause emotional fluctuations;

2. Avoid overwork: Excessive mental or physical labor can not only reduce the body's resistance of liver cancer patients, causing cancer recurrence or metastasis, but also aggravate liver damage and lead to worsening of the disease;

3. Get rid of bad lifestyles or habits: avoid smoking and drinking, do not eat moldy food, eat less pickled meat products, etc.;

4. Regular life, daily living, outdoor activities, diet and nutrition, physical exercise;

5. Avoid infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The prevention and treatment of liver cancer is a long and arduous task.

What are the dangers of liver cancer?

1. Decreased resistance: Liver cancer can cause a series of digestive system symptoms in patients, including anorexia, indigestion, weight loss, decreased physical fitness, decreased resistance and immunity, etc. This can easily lead to various forms of infection in patients, making their treatment more troublesome.

2. Cause abdominal pain: Liver cancer can cause abdominal pain of varying degrees. Liver cancer patients will experience persistent or intermittent pain in the liver area, which is generally characterized by dull pain and bloating. Once the cancer nodules rupture, it often causes acute abdominal pain and obvious peritoneal irritation symptoms, which can cause the patient's blood pressure to drop, or even cause shock, leading to death.

3. Lower limb edema: Liver cancer can cause patients to have severe ascites symptoms, and the ascites of the patient will compress the veins and lymph of the lower limbs, resulting in poor venous and lymphatic return in the lower limbs, thus causing lower limb edema. The milder cases generally manifest as ankle edema, while the more severe cases will spread to the entire lower limbs.

4. Bleeding tendency: Liver cancer can also cause patients to show a more obvious bleeding tendency. Patients will have problems such as bleeding gums and subcutaneous ecchymosis. In more serious cases, it can also cause gastrointestinal bleeding. Gastrointestinal bleeding is a very important cause of death in liver cancer patients.

5. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion and ascites Hepatocellular carcinoma on the diaphragmatic surface can directly infiltrate or metastasize through the bloodstream or lymph nodes to cause hemorrhagic pleural effusion, which is common on the right side.

6. Secondary infection: Due to the long-term consumption of cancer, the resistance is weakened, especially those with decreased white blood cells after radiation and chemotherapy, which are prone to various infections, such as pneumonia, intestinal infection, fungal infection, etc.

7. Rupture and bleeding of liver cancer nodules. Necrosis and liquefaction of liver cancer tissue may lead to spontaneous rupture or rupture due to external force. If it is confined to the subcapsular membrane, there may be sudden pain and rapid enlargement of the liver. If it ruptures into the abdominal cavity, it may cause acute abdominal pain and peritoneal irritation. In severe cases, it may cause hemorrhagic shock or death. In mild cases, bleeding stops after a few days and the pain gradually subsides.

8. Gastrointestinal bleeding combined with liver cirrhosis or portal vein or hepatic vein cancer thrombosis may cause esophageal or gastric fundus varicose vein rupture and bleeding due to portal hypertension. Bleeding may also be caused by gastrointestinal mucosal erosion, coagulation disorder, etc.

Entering the abdominal cavity will cause acute pain and peritoneal irritation. In severe cases, it may cause hemorrhagic shock and death. In mild cases, the bleeding will stop after a few days and bloody ascites will appear.

9. Secondary infection: The late complications of liver cancer are caused by long-term consumption, low resistance, and a decrease in white blood cells after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, which makes it easy to develop various infections, such as pneumonia, sepsis, intestinal infection, fungal infection, etc. 4. Hepatic encephalopathy: About 1/3 of patients die from this.