What should we pay attention to in preventing liver cancer? To prevent liver cancer, we need to control three major factors

Controllable Factor 1

Don't take medicine randomly to prevent virus infection

The incidence of liver cancer in patients with chronic hepatitis is 100 times higher than that of normal people. The first thing ordinary people need to do to prevent liver cancer is to prevent infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses.

In addition, special attention should be paid to medication safety. Many drugs may cause liver damage and should not be taken indiscriminately, such as antibiotics, painkillers, contraceptives, blood sugar and lipid-lowering drugs, and cold treatment drugs. In addition, many hepatitis B virus infected people take drugs indiscriminately and believe in folk remedies. Some drugs advertised as "liver protection drugs", "immunity enhancement drugs", and "nutritional drugs" are often not what they claim to be, so avoid abuse.

Controllable Factor 2

Eat less "raw" seafood

The younger age of liver cancer is closely related to the increasing number of bad lifestyle habits among young people. Experts say that many young people are overnourished, obese, do not eat in the morning, overeat at night, and like to sleep in, which are all risk factors.

For modern people, simple food is not only a virtue of frugality, but also more importantly, it is healthy. But most young people don’t think so. Many young people eat too luxuriously, drink alcohol and eat meat, and have a curiosity mentality. They eat whatever is fresh, raw seafood, raw fish, and raw meat. However, they don’t know that many seafood may contain various hepatitis viruses due to pollution. Once ingested, it may cause acute hepatitis. This is also one of the reasons why the southeastern coastal area of ​​my country is a high-incidence area for liver cancer.

Although these lifestyle habits will not directly lead to liver cancer, they will increase the risk of liver cancer. Liver cancer is often based on cirrhosis. Alcoholic liver disease caused by drinking, fatty liver hepatitis caused by obesity due to overeating, and liver damage caused by excessive dieting can all directly lead to cirrhosis. Not eating in the morning leads to unbalanced nutrition, staying up late and sleeping in leads to a disorder of the body's biological clock, which will reduce immunity and become a superimposed factor leading to liver cancer.

Controllable Factor 3

Bad emotions weigh down the body

Modern people are under increasing pressure in life, but in my country there is currently no large team of psychologists to help people relieve this pressure. If people do not adjust their mentality well, they are prone to illness.

Emotions, work pressure, and especially a negative mentality have a great impact on the immune system, adding fuel to the fire. After learning that they have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, many people are afraid and depressed, lose their appetite all day, and touch their livers with their hands, sometimes for two or three hours, worried that hepatitis will turn into cancer. If this emotion persists for a long time, it will lead to a series of changes in the nervous, endocrine and immune functions, significantly reducing the anti-cancer cells in the blood, and cancer will really occur.

Take charge of your own prevention of liver cancer

Do as much as possible within your control to do better. Every bad habit you change will bring you one step closer to cancer.

1. First, throw away moldy food at home. Aflatoxin contaminated in 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.

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

3. Adjust your mentality when encountering problems. Ye Yongan pointed 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.

4. In addition, regular physical examinations are the simplest way to detect liver cancer early. Experts recommend that everyone should have regular physical examinations, especially high-risk groups (those infected with hepatitis B or C virus). It is best to have liver cancer screening every six months. You can go to a large hospital or physical examination institution to do it. Only two items need to be checked, one is alpha-fetoprotein and the other is B-ultrasound. The former costs 20 yuan and the latter is 30 to 60 yuan.