Cancer is a terrible lesion, it is caused by the "rebellion" of normal cells in the human body, no matter which cancer, it will greatly threaten the life of patients, and pancreatic cancer is even more frightening, its course of disease develops very fast, once diagnosed, the survival period of patients is only a few short months, so it is also known as the "king of cancer".
In fact, the reason why pancreatic cancer is so terrible, there is another reason is that it is too good at "camouflage", early pancreatic cancer symptoms and stomach diseases are very similar, such as loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nausea, etc., resulting in not enough attention, and finally miss the best time for treatment.
The following 5 types of people are high-risk groups of pancreatic cancer, once there is unexplained nausea, loss of appetite and other symptoms, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause!
1. Patients with pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis, if repeated and untreated, can develop into chronic pancreatitis, and many pancreatic cancers develop from chronic pancreatitis.
Patients with chronic pancreatitis have long-term inflammatory stimulation of the pancreas, and once the pancreatic duct is damaged, the digestive enzymes in it can dissolve and digest the pancreas itself, resulting in pancreatic fluid oozing out and eventually forming cancerous changes.
2. Obese people
Obese people like to eat high-fat, high-cholesterol foods, such foods are too much, will increase the pancreatic load, increase the risk of pancreatic cancer.
Especially people with overeating habits, it is easy to attack acute pancreatitis, which will not only cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and other symptoms, but also increase the risk of pancreatic cancer.
3. Smokers and alcoholics
Smoking is a high risk factor for pancreatic cancer, and studies have shown that long-term smokers have a 2-fold higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than non-smokers.
Tobacco contains a large number of carcinogens, which can be secreted into the biliary tract through bile and regurgitated into the pancreatic duct, causing irritation to it. And when smoking, carcinogens can also enter the pancreas through blood circulation, which will also increase the chance of pancreatic cancer.
Alcohol abuse can also induce pancreatic cancer. A small amount of alcohol is not harmful to the body, but a lot of alcohol, can induce acute pancreatitis, if acute pancreatitis is not treated in time, can induce chronic pancreatitis, increase the chance of suffering from pancreatic cancer, especially people who have smoking and drinking habits at the same time, are more likely to be targeted by pancreatic cancer.
4. People with a family history of pancreatic cancer
The occurrence of pancreatic cancer is also related to genetic factors, if there are immediate family members with pancreatic cancer, then the risk of pancreatic cancer is 3 times higher than that of ordinary people.
Because the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer are not obvious and the disease progresses rapidly, such people must go to the hospital regularly for physical examination.
5. Middle-aged and elderly men
Compared with women, men have a higher chance of developing pancreatic cancer, especially after age, and the risk of cancer can also increase significantly.
After the age of 40, the weight of the pancreas begins to decrease, the function of the pancreas also begins to decrease, it is more likely to occur lesions, coupled with the increase in age, the blood vessels are easy to harden, so that the pancreatic tissue ischemia for a long time, hypoxia, the pancreatic duct epithelium is also more likely to appear proliferation, causing cancer.
For pancreatic cancer, the earlier it is treated, the higher the survival rate of the patient. Early symptoms of pancreatic cancer are easy to be confused with stomach diseases, such as nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, abdominal pain, etc., through this, if the above symptoms suddenly appear, and the drug treatment is ineffective, we must cause vigilance, especially the above mentioned several types of high-risk groups, to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause, so as not to delay the treatment of the disease.