What bad habits in life can lead to esophageal cancer?

Cancer or something is really frightening, because once you get it, it is very serious. This requires us to cultivate good living habits in our daily life and avoid the invasion of these diseases. Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor of human beings, accounting for more than 9% of esophageal tumors, which is extremely harmful to our life and health. Let's take a look at what bad habits are easy to cause esophageal cancer, and then avoid them!

what is esophageal cancer?

? Esophageal cancer is a common digestive tract tumor, and about 3 thousand people die of esophageal cancer every year in the world. Its morbidity and mortality vary greatly from country to country. China is one of the regions with high incidence of esophageal cancer in the world, with an average death rate of about 15, people every year. Men are more than women, and the onset age is mostly over 4 years old. The typical symptom of esophageal cancer is progressive dysphagia. First, it is difficult to swallow dry food, then semi-liquid food, and finally water and saliva can not be swallowed.

what bad habits are likely to cause esophageal cancer?

1. Lack of food nutrition. Malnutrition caused by improper diet is also related to esophageal cancer. In the usual diet, fresh fruits and vegetables and protein are not enough, while some moldy, pickled and other items containing fungi are consumed in large quantities, which greatly increases the incidence of esophageal cancer.

2. In daily life, eating hot food, hard and rough food is also related to the occurrence of esophageal cancer. In addition, long-term consumption of a large number of irritating foods will also cause damage to the esophageal membrane, which will lead to cancer.

3. Long-term alcoholism. Alcohol is a very important factor in the occurrence of esophageal cancer. The risk of esophageal cancer is ten times that of non-drinkers.

Symptoms of early esophageal cancer

1. Choking sensation of swallowing stalk. It is the most common, can disappear or recur on its own, does not affect eating, often occurs when patients' mood fluctuates, and is easily mistaken for functional symptoms.

2. Pain behind the sternum and under the xiphoid process. More common, there is pain behind the sternum or under the xiphoid process when swallowing food, and its nature can be burning, acupuncture or pulling, especially when swallowing rough, hot or irritating food, which is intermittent at first. When cancer invades nearby tissues or penetrates, there can be severe and persistent pain. The pain site is often not completely consistent with the lesion site in the esophagus, and the pain can be temporarily relieved by analgesic.

3. Food retention and foreign body sensation. When swallowing food or drinking water, there is a feeling that the food descends slowly and stays, as well as a feeling of retrosternal contraction or food sticking to the esophageal wall, which disappears after eating, and the location of symptoms is mostly consistent with the lesion in the esophagus.

4. The throat feels dry and tight. Swallow and dry. Rough food is especially obvious, and the occurrence of this symptom is often related to the patient's emotional fluctuation.

About the prevention of esophageal cancer, the above are all introduced from the aspects of diet, and there are other prevention methods. I hope you can know more. Master the correct prevention methods of esophageal cancer, achieve effective prevention and avoid the occurrence of esophageal cancer. If esophageal cancer occurs, it is necessary to carry out timely and effective treatment to control the development of the disease and make the patient suffer less harm.

how to prevent esophageal cancer in life?

1. change your eating habits: don't eat hot food, and don't eat hot and rough food. Too hot and rough food will burn the esophageal mucosa when it passes through the esophagus and contacts the mucosa epithelium, which will cause damage, ulceration and bleeding of the mucosa epithelium. Don't eat too fast, don't wolf down, don't eat too fast, and avoid swallowing fishbones, poultry bones and so on. These hard bone spurs will pierce the esophageal wall, and the wound will be difficult to heal for a while, which will easily lead to esophageal lesions over time. Don't drink too much alcohol to reduce the irritation to esophageal mucosa. Do not smoke, drink less, because of the high alcohol content or other harmful chemicals contained in the wine, the incidence factors of cancer in oral cavity, pharynx, larynx and esophagus caused by smoking may increase exponentially;

Therefore, we advocate not smoking and drinking less. Don't squat, because the pressure in the abdominal cavity increases when squatting, the food will be blocked when entering the stomach through the cardia, and the esophagus will increase peristalsis and pressure to transport the food mass. The friction between food and esophagus aggravates the damage of esophageal wall and is easy to become cancerous. The lost mucosal epithelium will proliferate quickly to repair the ulcerated and inflamed mucosal epithelium. If the mucosal epithelium is repeatedly stimulated by this kind of bad stimulation, some abnormal "heteromorphic" cells will appear in the process of repeated proliferation and repair, and if these abnormal cells accumulate more, they will develop in a bad direction, gradually undergo malignant changes, and finally form constantly expanding cancer cells.

2. Don't eat moldy food, and eat less sauerkraut: moldy food can produce toxins. Sauerkraut contains a lot of nitrosamines, which have strong carcinogenic effects. Reduce or avoid the intake of nitrosamines, which are a kind of chemical carcinogens with strong carcinogenicity. Therefore, we should try not to eat long-term spoiled food, pickled meat food and pickles. Do not eat moldy food, moldy food is also one of the factors that induce esophageal cancer. Grain is easy to be contaminated by mold when it is harvested and stored; Edible oil is easy to be contaminated by Aspergillus flavus after long-term storage; Poor preservation of vegetables will lead to white mold. Take enough riboflavin from food, that is, vitamin B2, which is one of the water-soluble B vitamins and an indispensable vitamin for maintaining human health. In recent years, it has been found at home and abroad that riboflavin deficiency is closely related to the occurrence of esophageal cancer, and riboflavin deficiency is a predisposing condition for esophageal cancer.

3. It is forbidden to drink strong food such as strong tea, strong coffee and strong liquor. Attention should be paid to oral hygiene. Any pathological changes in the oral cavity will be harmful to digestion. For example, oral infection can easily spread to the esophagus, leading to the occurrence of esophageal cancer. Advocate drinking more tea. Green tea can prevent cancer and is good for cardiovascular disease. However, you must not drink too much. The best way is to taste it, in small quantities and many times.

4. Don't ignore the early signs of esophageal cancer: As the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day", and the occurrence and development of esophageal cancer can't happen overnight; Therefore, all middle-aged and elderly people over 4 years old, especially those who come from or live in areas with high incidence of esophageal cancer (especially men), who are used to eating sauerkraut and drinking alcohol, should not be taken lightly when they have one or more premonitory symptoms such as dysphagia, retrosternal pain or discomfort recently. They should seek medical treatment for esophageal exfoliative cytology, X-ray barium meal examination, esophagoscopy and biopsy in time so as to find out the condition early. The survival rate of patients can be greatly improved as long as three early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment are achieved.