MOSCOW, 28 Apr. The portal Eat This, Not That named the five most popular causes of the occurrence and development of liver cancer. First of all, to reduce the risk of liver cancer, you need to reduce the amount of alcohol.
"Alcohol can lead to chronic liver disease , including cirrhosis or scarring, which can also cause cancer. People with liver disease are more likely to die from liver failure than from cancer. The risk of liver cancer is indeed increased with regular alcohol consumption, but we prefer to say that it primarily harms your liver as a whole, and does not cause cancer,” said Roderich Schwartz, director of the Center for Liver and Pancreas Diseases at Roswell Park. .
Sports physician Bob Goldman stressed that athletes have liver cancer when using anabolic steroids. An American Cancer Society report lists unprotected sex as another cause of liver cancer.
"Infections that can be contracted through unprotected sex lead to cirrhosis and cancer, which is becoming the most common type in many parts of the world. <…> The risk increases with excessive alcohol consumption (at least six drinks a day),» the material notes.
Assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Stella Tomassi, said that even secondhand smoke greatly increases the likelihood of liver cancer . The risk of liver cancer in the presence of excess weight increases by 21%, and with obesity — by 87%, follows from the material of the American Cancer Society.