Using chopsticks, moldy cutting boards cause liver cancer
Recently, on social networks, the information “using chopsticks and chopping boards causes liver cancer” has made people worried.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Cam Phuong, Director of the Center for Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Bach Mai Hospital, said that people who use chopsticks and molded cutting boards are prone to acute diseases and poisoning. It shows that moldy chopsticks and chopping boards contain toxins aflatoxin causes liver cancer.
The doctor noted that people should clean and dry chopsticks and cutting boards to avoid mold and risk of infection with fungi, bacteria, and parasites. These are the factors that lead to acute and chronic poisoning.
Social networks spread information that using “chopsticks and chopping boards cause liver cancer”
As for liver cancer, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Cam Phuong analyzed, tAccording to GLOBOCAN statistics in 2020, liver cancer in Vietnam ranks first in terms of morbidity and mortality. Because Vietnam is located in an endemic area, the rate of hepatitis B and hepatitis C is high, and cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B and C viruses is also high. Besides, in Vietnam men abuse alcohol leading to cirrhosis of the liver for alcohol.
According to Doctor Phuong, uLiver cancer in its early stages has almost no symptoms. Therefore, patients who are found to have liver cancer at an early stage are often by chance ultrasound or blood tests for tumor markers.
Typical symptoms encountered in most patients are pain in the right lower quadrant, fatigue, and loss of appetite. At a later stage, the patient will have increased pain in the right lower quadrant and have enlarged liver, jaundice, yellow eyes, distended abdomen due to abdominal fluid…
Subjects at high risk of liver cancer are often found in people with cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus infection, hepatitis C virus infection, or patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, fatty liver, aflatoxin poisoning, hepatitis B, hepatitis C.
For patients in the high-risk group for liver cancer, it is necessary to periodically screen with abdominal ultrasound and test for a tumor marker in the blood, AFP, in some places with conditions, AFP can be tested. , AFP-L3, PIVKA II.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Cam Phuong recommends, menOver 40 with cirrhosis of the liver from any cause should periodically screen for liver cancer. Liver cancer, if detected early, has a 5-year survival rate of 70-80%.
Depending on the stage of the disease, liver cancer patients will be surgically removed the lobe containing the tumor, liver transplantation, radiofrequency ablation, liver tumor microwaves, chemotherapy embolization, selective radiotherapy with microspheres Y-90 radiation, targeted therapy, immunity.
“However, if liver cancer is at a late stage, for example, it has metastasized in the liver, lung, or bone, the prognosis is poor, the treatment cost is very high, but the effectiveness is limited,” said Doctor Phuong.
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