What are the causes of esophageal cancer?

Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the esophagus, also known as esophageal cancer. Once the disease occurs, the patient will experience choking and difficulty swallowing when swallowing food. In addition, it will be accompanied by a series of symptoms such as pain behind the sternum. If not treated early, cancer cells will invade adjacent organs, seriously threatening the patient's life. Therefore, in daily life, we must do a good job of preventing esophageal cancer.

What is the cause of esophageal cancer?

1. Wrong way of eating

Wrong eating habits are one of the main causes of esophageal cancer. For example, eating too fast or swallowing food whole will cause the food to be too rough and bulky.

During the process of swallowing these foods, they will cause some mechanical scratches to the esophagus, thereby damaging the esophageal mucosa.

If this kind of mechanical damage occurs for a long time, the esophageal mucosa will always be in a damaged state and the chance of cancer will be very high.

In addition, if you like to eat some over-scalding food or drink some over-scalding drinks, the esophagus will also be burned. Once burned, the esophageal mucosa needs to repair itself.

During the process of repeated burns and repairs, the mucosa is very likely to develop some lesions, thereby inducing the occurrence of esophageal cancer.

2. Bad eating habits

If you consume foods that are very irritating to the esophagus in your daily diet for a long time, such as foods containing nitrites, your chances of developing esophageal cancer will be very high.

There are a lot of nitrites in various pickled foods, such as pickled vegetables, pickled eggs, fish and meat.

Once this ingredient is consumed in excess, it can easily induce esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and other cancers.

In addition, if you consume moldy foods in large quantities for a long time, the bacteria and viruses in these foods will cause greater damage to the esophagus, and the risk of developing esophageal cancer will be relatively increased.

3. Long-term esophageal disease

If you suffer from some chronic diseases of the esophagus for a long time in your daily life, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease, or corrosive esophageal burns and stenosis, these chronic esophageal diseases will cause inflammation of the esophageal mucosa.

Once inflammation persists, it will cause mutations in the esophageal mucosal epithelial cells, and the risk of developing esophageal cancer will be very high.

4. Excessive smoking and drinking

If you smoke for a long time in your daily life, your chance of developing esophageal cancer is 3 to 8 times higher than that of non-smokers. If you drink a lot of alcohol for a long time, your risk of developing esophageal cancer will increase by 7 to 50 times.

When smoking, the toxic, harmful and carcinogenic substances in the smoke will irritate the esophageal mucosa, causing excessive proliferation of the esophageal mucosa.

If you drink heavily for a long time, the components in the alcohol will damage the esophageal mucosa, and the risk of esophageal cancer will increase many times.

In short, the occurrence of esophageal cancer is closely related to some wrong behavioral habits in daily life.

In addition to the above four factors, if the body lacks selenium, carotene and vitamins for a long time, it will also increase the risk of esophageal cancer.

Therefore, if you want to avoid esophageal cancer, you must pay attention to the conditioning of all aspects of life. In addition, if you have difficulty swallowing, slow swallowing of food, and pain behind the sternum, you must quickly seek medical attention.

If it is caused by esophageal cancer, only early scientific and standardized treatment can the patient's health and life be protected to the greatest extent.