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Cancer is "dragged out"?

4 kinds of minor diseases may become cancer if left unattended for a long time

By Matthew A LamPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

As the saying goes, "if a small disease is not treated, a big disease is difficult to cure".

In life, it is normal to have headaches and fever, and many people are busy with work and do not take minor illnesses to heart, so they can endure them. Cancer may have already planted a seed in your heart at this time.

Many people think that cancer comes suddenly and progresses quickly, but it is not. Experts say that cancer is very cunning. Some cancers are very patient and can lurk in the body for ten years or even more than ten years without showing their heads, and then when they are mature, they can break through the body's life defense in one stroke and make life precarious.

For example, there must be someone who has polyps in the intestines of bowel cancer patients. When they were first discovered, although the doctor said they were benign, they were told to come to the hospital regularly to check whether there were any abnormalities in the polyps, and if there were abnormalities, they should be taken care of in time to avoid deterioration. However, this person did not go to the hospital for several years because the intestinal polyp did not bring any effect and he had a lot of things to do, and then when he went to the hospital for examination, he was told by the doctor that he had "advanced intestinal cancer" and the cause was related to the intestinal polyp.

From this, we can see that although cancer is cunning, it is not impossible to break it, for example, some cancers may have a precancerous lesion before they occur.

What is the explanation of "precancerous lesion"?

The precancerous lesion is a kind of diagnosis in pathology, and the development of this state is two-way, that is, it may develop better, but it may also develop worse, depending on how the patient thinks about this state.

Doctors say that if there are signs of precancerous lesions in the body, it is best to pay attention to them and then intervene by improving the lifestyle and using medical means to make the lesions develop into a "good" state. In other words, this precancerous lesion can be controlled and cured through treatment, which means that cancer can be prevented at this time.

These 4 minor diseases are common precancerous lesions

1. Stomach ulcer - stomach cancer

According to research, half of the people in China suffer from gastrointestinal diseases, and gastric ulcer is one of them, and gastric ulcer is the pre-cancerous stage of gastric cancer.

If you find that you often feel stomach pain, it is better to go to the hospital for a gastroscopy to prevent stomach ulcers from proliferating and deteriorating into stomach cancer.

2. Chronic liver disease - liver cancer

The predecessor of liver cancer is cirrhosis, and the predecessor of cirrhosis is hepatitis. Especially, viral hepatitis, such as hepatitis B, has a relatively high possibility of developing into liver cancer.

The liver function of hepatitis patients is damaged, but the liver has the function of self-repair, as the liver cells are in the process of self-repair, the liver structure will change, and even the normal liver cells will "strike" and become cancer cells in the process of repair, slowly leading to liver cancer. Therefore, it is better for patients with unhealthy liver or liver disease to go to the hospital for regular checkups (liver function test, imaging test, abdominal CT, etc.), as liver cancer will not notify you.

3. Frequent mouth ulcers - oral cancer

Frequent staying up late, picky and partial eating, body fire, and unhygienic oral cavity can lead to mouth ulcers, which will heal in less than 10 days under normal circumstances and is not a serious disease. However, if the mouth ulcers keep attacking in one place once they occur, and once they attack, they are not easy to heal and take up to one month, then we should suspect that it may be oral cancer.

4. Thyroid nodules larger than 1cm - thyroid cancer

Most of the time, nodules in the body are benign, and doctors will not give you emergency treatment at first but will ask you to review them regularly. For example, thyroid nodules may deteriorate to thyroid cancer if you do not have a regular review.

The above 4 diseases may be precancerous lesions. They do not necessarily develop into cancer, but cancer will develop from these precancerous lesions. Don't worry if you find precancerous lesions in your body, because there is a period between the development of cancer. As long as you pay attention to it, review it regularly and find out the abnormality and kill it in time, you will be fine.

Body with precancerous lesions, 3 kinds of abnormalities are found, or cancer!

1. Unexplained weight loss

If the body is suffering from cancer, the growth of cancer cells needs to take in the nutrients inside the body. In addition, the patient will be affected to eat because of the cancer cells in the body, so the body will lose weight because the body does not take in much nutrition and the cancer cells are sucking the nutrition from the body. At the same time, the body will feel tired and weak.

2. Unexplained pain

When cancer is found in different parts of the body, the increase of cancer cells may press on the nerves near the cancerous area, which will lead to pain. If the body often has inexplicable pain, it cannot be avoided that cancer occurs, especially the kind of pain without any reason.

3. Repeated low fever

When the body has cancer, the infection of the cancerous area may cause cancerous fever in the body. However, the fever may also be caused by the body's immune system fighting against cancer cells. If you find that you have repeated low fevers, and even fever-reducing drugs are difficult to solve, it is better to go to the hospital for a checkup and cancer screening.

The above symptoms of cancer should be paid attention to in time, especially for patients with "precancerous lesions".

Generally speaking, everyone is afraid of cancer, but everyone does not know how cunning cancer is. Cancer is not a sudden disease, but a chronic disease that can be controlled, alleviated, and cured, depending on whether you pay attention to any abnormalities in your body or not.

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