The main causes of liver cancer

Update Date: 2021-04-12 Source: Network

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The malignant degree of liver cancer is very high, and it is one of the cancers that people talk about. Because liver cancer is a serious threat to the lives of patients, it has the title of the king of cancer. The main characteristics of liver cancer are aggressive and short course of disease. So what causes liver cancer to threaten people's health?

The main causes of liver cancer

1. Alcoholism. Long term alcoholism is easy to induce liver cancer. As the saying goes, "drinking damages the liver", drinking is not the direct cause of liver cancer, but its role is similar to a catalyst, which can promote the occurrence and progress of liver cancer. This is also a common cause of liver cancer. Alcoholism can cause alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic cirrhosis.

2. Viral hepatitis. Viral hepatitis is one of the common causes of liver cancer. Hepatitis B epidemic area is also a high incidence area of liver cancer, people who have suffered from hepatitis B than those who have not suffered from hepatitis B have a 10 times higher chance of suffering from liver cancer. Long term clinical observation found that hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer are the trilogy of continuous migration and evolution. Generally speaking, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are closely related to the etiology of liver cancer. It is reported that HBV gene can be integrated into the DNA of liver cancer cells in HBV positive liver cancer patients, so HBV is regarded as an important factor in the pathogenesis of liver cancer. 　　

3. Diet related factors. The occurrence of liver cancer is closely related to living habits. Long term consumption of moldy food, nitrosamine containing food and selenium deficiency are also important factors for the development of liver cancer. Aflatoxin B1 has been proved to be carcinogenic and mainly exists in moldy grains, such as corn, peanut, rice and so on.

matters needing attention

The patients with liver cancer were mainly high in vitamin, low in sugar, low in fat and high in protein. Eat less and eat more, with soft and easy to digest, less fiber, less stimulating soft food or semi liquid diet.