What are the reasons why the elderly are more susceptible to kidney cancer? What are the ways for middle-aged and elderly people to prevent kidney cancer?

Kidney cancer is a common cancer disease in the middle-aged and elderly. It seriously affects the normal life of patients. It also brings great inconvenience to the family members of patients with kidney cancer. Pay attention to some common sense issues about kidney cancer in life. What are the ways for middle-aged and elderly people to prevent kidney cancer?

The elderly are more susceptible to kidney cancer for the following reasons:

1. Heredity: The heredity rate of kidney cancer is relatively high. People with a family member with kidney cancer are more likely to get kidney cancer. Therefore, if there is a family member with kidney cancer, you should pay special attention. It is recommended to have a regular B-ultrasound examination every year to detect it early.

2. Smoking: This may be the reason why kidney cancer is relatively common in men. Studies have found that smokers have increased levels of various mutagenic substances in their urine. Among them, dimethylnitrosamine in tobacco can cause kidney cancer.

3. Environmental pollution: Environmental pollution is a significant cause of high incidence of kidney cancer. For example, heavy metal dust and lead in the air are important carcinogens. Printers, coke workers, dry cleaning workers and petrochemical industry workers are more likely to develop kidney cancer.

Ways for middle-aged and elderly people to prevent kidney cancer

1. Pay attention to diet. To prevent kidney cancer, you need to pay attention to your daily diet. You should have good eating habits, eat less high-fat and high-calorie foods, and keep exercising. Control your weight and avoid obesity and high blood pressure.

Eating more fruits and vegetables such as bananas, carrots and beets can significantly reduce the risk of cancer. The more fruits and vegetables you eat every day, the lower the risk of getting the disease. Studies have shown that people who eat 6 to 8 bananas a day have a risk of kidney cancer that is nearly half that of people who do not eat bananas at all. Regularly consuming root vegetables such as carrots or beets can also reduce the risk of getting the disease by 50% to 65%. The reason is that bananas and other fruits and vegetables contain a special antioxidant substance that has a strong function of inhibiting tumor formation.

2. Regular physical examinations. Another measure to prevent kidney cancer is to have physical examinations, which is the premise for early detection. Kidney cancer patients often have symptoms such as hematuria, back pain and lumps caused by local tumor infiltration. However, most early kidney cancers lack obvious symptoms. If symptoms such as back pain, hematuria and lumps occur, most patients have already developed to the middle and late stages of the disease.

Therefore, regular physical examinations are the fundamental way to detect kidney cancer in its early stages. For men over 40 years old, especially those with unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking and a family history of kidney cancer, it is particularly important to have a physical examination once a year. B-ultrasound is one of the best methods for screening kidney cancer, which can detect kidney tumors with a diameter of 0.8 cm. If an abnormality is found in B-ultrasound, a CT scan should be performed, which can detect tumors larger than 0.5 cm.

At present, cancer is no longer a common disease among the elderly. Due to the lifestyle of modern people and some other factors, cancer is gradually becoming younger. In some special cases, cancer has already occurred in young people. Therefore, we should pay more attention to the disease and prevent cancer by changing our lifestyle.