The doctor told the Krasnoyarsk residents that he could lead to liver cancer

In 2024, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory it was revealed 475 cases of liver cancer and bile ducts. At the same time, men get almost twice as often as women, but over time, this difference is getting less and less. Statistics were brought to the Ministry of Health and talked about the factors of RThe selection of development of liver cancer, symptoms and prevention.

It is noted that the rAct of the liver in the structure of oncological incidence among the inhabitants of the region It costs 12th place and accounts for 3 % of all oncopathologies. “The liver cancer is divided into primary and secondary. Primary – a rare phenomenon, it is a tumor, which is based on the reborn liver cells, its ducts or blood vessels. Secondary cancer is found several times more often. This is a tumor formed from cancer cells listed in the liver from a malignant neoplasm of another organ. Most often, this is a metastasis of intestinal cancer, adrenal gland or genitals, ”explains Denis Medvedev, head of the abdominal oncology department No. 1.

Among the risk factors development of liver cancer specialists call hepatitis C and B: at the first Before the formation of tumors in the liver, it can pass 5-7 years, with the second-10-20 years. In second place is the cirrhosis of the liver, which leads to excessive alcohol consumption, uncontrolled intake of drugs and anabolics. On the third – opisthorchiasis (opistorchi – flat worms that live in the bile ducts and cause inflammation, these parasites are transmitted to a person through raw or insufficiently cooked fish).

“The effects of chemicals (arsenic, pesticides containing chlorine, chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents) and choleretic disease can also affect the development of liver cancer. Stones in the bile ducts cause inflammation in the liver, the cells around the stones are prone to mutation and the formation of tumors, ”says Denis Medvedev.

Doctors note that at the initial stages of development of the liver tumor there is no characteristic symptoms, and therefore often cancer of the liver is diagnosed when the disease is already launched and poorly lend itself to treatment. Both primary and secondary liver cancer have the same signs, they are nonspecific precisely for cancer, so they are easy to confuse with other liver diseases – exacerbation of chronic hepatitis, gallstone disease and others. The later signs of the tumor process in the liver are similar to the symptoms of cirrhosis – venous stars appear, the stomach grows, and a person loses weight, mechanical jaundice appears – yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes and sclera, itching of the skin, darkening of urine and lightening the stool. In addition, at this stage, patients have constant aching pains in the right hypochondrium.

“To reduce the risk of liver diseases, including oncological, helps the rejection of bad habits, maintain a healthy weight, timely treatment and observation by a doctor with hemochromatosis and other hereditary diseases that increase the risk of cancer, as well as the prevention of hepatitis B and C: vaccination, the absence of exclusive sexual ties and injections with unfortunate used used used used use needles, ”said Denis Alexandrovich.