I believe everyone has heard of "long-term illness and become sick", but have you heard of long-term illness and become cancer?
Cancer is a disease that makes people feel terrified and fearful. It seems that after the anti-cancer who I have known has experienced all kinds of pain, tried various treatment methods, and huge medical expenses, it ended in failure, leaving the ending of " people and money" to my family. Some cancer patients even have only a few months from the time they are diagnosed to death.
This also makes many people mistakenly believe that cancer is an acute and untreatable disease, and suffering from cancer is equivalent to death!
But in fact, The World Health Organization defines cancer as a chronic disease, and its scientific name is " malignant tumor". has the same pathogenesis mechanism as benign tumors, and cancer is also a disease caused by cell mutation and proliferation. It takes quite a long time for to change from cell carcinoma to cancer, and then to cancer cells infiltration and spread, so in essence, it is a chronic disease of !
However, unlike benign tumors, cancer has the characteristics of destruction and consumption , which will continuously consume the patient's body nutrition and destroy the function of the organs. After cancer metastasis and invasion occurs, other tissues and organ functions can also be impaired. When the cancer enters the end stage, the patient will face various complications, become increasingly weak, organ failure, and eventually die!
After understanding cancer diseases, let’s take a look at the so-called “ long-term illness becomes cancer”!
Cancer is the same as other diseases, and there is a reason as long as it appears. The factors that induce cancer are relatively complex, and so far the clinical practice has not been completely clear. It is just that several factors related to cancer have been identified, such as the genetic transmission of , bad diet and living habits, living environment, long-term contact with carcinogens, chronic disease , etc.!
There are even a lot of studies that chronic inflammation of may also induce cancer!
The so-called inflammation is commonly known as " inflamed ". It is the body's defense response to stimulation. For example, redness, swelling, heat pain, dysfunction, , etc. are all typical symptoms of inflammation. However, the mechanism of inflammation is very complex. It can be an infectious inflammation caused by pathogen infection, or a non-infectious inflammation . Generally speaking, inflammation is beneficial to the human body;
But sometimes, inflammation is also harmful to the body , such as attacking the human body's own tissues, inflammation that appears in transparent tissues, etc. During the process of inflammation development, damage factors can directly or indirectly cause tissue and cell damage.
The chronic inflammation of for a long time will not only produce free radical , but also cause to damage healthy cells. The cytokine produced by is also easy to stimulate blood vessels, and will increase the rate of cancer!
For example, the following types of chronic inflammations, beware that they may cause cancer in the future:
1. hepatitis B
my country is the world's . The number of new liver cancer patients reaches every year. . Among these patients, nearly 280% of are developed from hepatitis B virus .
As mentioned above, after viral infection and induce hepatitis B, the patient's hepatocytes will be constantly attacked by viruses . If the disease is not controlled properly and the liver cells are repeatedly damaged, it can gradually develop into liver fibrosis, cirrhosis , eventually causing cell carcinoma;
2. colitis
A large number of newly diagnosed intestinal cancer patients in my country every year develop from chronic intestinal diseases, such as ulcerative colitis, colon polyps , etc.Among them, ulcerative colitis will cause repeated damage to the mucosa, and cells will continue to proliferate, repair and divide . inflammatory factors stimulate cells , and the cancer rate will increase rapidly;
3, atrophic gastritis
atrophic gastritis is a chronic gastritis developed from superficial gastritis. A large number of clinical studies have confirmed that , atrophic gastritis is not treated and gradually develops into atypical intestinal metaplasia. This is a major reason for inducing gastric cancer , which is also called " precancerous lesions ". Especially for patients with atrophic gastritis combined with Helicobacter pylori infection , the later cancer rate will be higher.
It should be emphasized that not all chronic inflammation will eventually develop into cancer, and the development of inflammation to cancer involves other aspects, such as immunity, bad life and eating habits, genes, etc.
Therefore, you don’t need to be overly nervous when suffering from chronic inflammation. Actively cooperating with doctors to treat and control the development of the disease is the first thing to do.
