Since there is no miracle liver cancer treatment, you better read our answers about how do your prevent liver cancer.
Liver cancer is the most common cancer in the world. It is also the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. You might enjoy the stories of cancer survivors, but reality is bitter. The prognosis for HCC is never good with a liver cancer survival rate of less than a year.
It may be impossible to prevent metastatic liver cancer, but there are possibilities of reducing the risks of getting primary liver cancer… or so says the medical world:
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and
getting the Hepatitis B vaccine
is the most effective way of preventing liver cancer
There are 2 parties involved in maintaining a healthy lifestyle:
- your personal efforts in what you eat and how you live
- the environment where you live in
We are living on an ever faster polluted earth: we are very limited in our efforts to live a healthy lifestyle on a polluted planet.
Primary and secondary liver cancer: 90-10
When people talk of prevention, they talk about primary cancer prevention.
Primary liver cancer is defined as cancer that begins in liver cells – called hepatocytes-. Primary liver cancer is called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which accounts for 90 per cent of liver cancer cases.
Secondary liver cancer or metastatic liver cancer is the result of the mutation of the cells from another type of cancer which spreads to the liver. So prevention here boils down to preventing the other cancer to occur.
Foods that prevent cancer
First and foremost our body lives on:
- food and
- fresh air.
So you better make sure you get the best of both.
- Again, when it comes to fresh air, you are limited to the environment you live in. If you have the means: do move to a place where the air is more healthy than where you live now.
- When it comes to food: go for organic grow fruits, organic vegetable and organic meat. You don’t want to fill your body with pesticide and herbicide residues: they do accumulate in fat. Ever wondered why obese people are more likely to get cancer? This is one of the reasons: their body just accumulates cancerous poisons…
Reducing the risks to prevent liver cancer
The keywords here are: reducing the risks, so that’s only a small part or reducing liver cancer… Better small than nothing but make sure you keep the whole picture in mind:
- live a healthy lifestyle
- on a healthy planet.
HCC is caused by several factors which include:
- chronic infection of hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C virus,
- cirrhosis or scar tissues of the liver,
- alcohol abuse,
- long-term exposure to alfatoxins, produced by many species of fungus that can be found in tree nuts, peanuts and other oilseed,
- smoking,
- long-term use of anabolic steroids and
- obesity.
Keywords here are : "which include". Some people look perfectly healthy and live a healthy lifestyle and still get liver cancer.
When you live in Malaysia: in 2003 from the 530 cases of HCC reported, 90% was caused by hepatitis B. So preventing people from getting hepatitis B will get rid of 90% of the primary liver cancers. Now that’s a good thing (if there is a guarantee like my father used to ask his oncologist after being diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer… unfortunately, there are no guarantees…).
It’s quite logical when 90% of the liver cancers are caused by hepatitis B, a simple solution to prevent liver cancer is getting a vaccination from hepatitis B. The vaccination will provide protection from the infectious disease and at the same time protect your liver from HCC.
Who is selling hepatitis B vaccins?
Did you notice we suddenly are not talking about living a healthy lifestyle on a healthy planet suddenly?
In stead we are talking about buying a vaccin from the medical industry. Similar chemical industries are also producing pesticides and herbicides with cancerous effects…
But if that’s the world we live in, we better take what’s available to be protected as much as possible. According to the World Health Organisation, hepatitis B vaccine has an outstanding record of safety and effectiveness. The vaccine is 95% cent effective in preventing children and adults from developing chronic infection, if and only if they have not yet been already infected.
A cure for liver cancer?
If there was a cure for cancer, you would have known it already by now and you won’t be reading it hidden far away in our metastatic liver cancer site.
Meanwhile Bayer Schering Pharma has recently launched Sorafenib as the oral targeted therapy for the treatment of liver cancer. Based on clinical trials, it is found that Sorafenib improves patient’s survival rate by 44 per cent.
This reminds me on father’s GP saying:
Try Xeloda: you could do yourself and your family a great pleasure.
The oncologist was more blunt:
It’s not because Xeloda is taken orally, that it’s as easy and effective as taking Aspirine. Xeloda is chemotherapy with all the terrible side-effects.
For now: as long as there isn’t a real cure for liver cancer, you better live as best as you can doing all things known about how do you prevent liver cancer.