Gastroenterologists have come to a conclusion that can save millions of people from a deadly disease.

Cancer is a twenty-first-century plague. One of the hardest and most difficult to treat is pancreatic. But this article is not about despair and how bad things are. For many years, Danish gastroenterologists have observed their patients and identified the main cause of this ailment. Your task is to prevent its onset or at least to identify in time to avoid serious health problems.





Gastroenterologists have long understood that the risk of pancreatic cancer on the background of chronic pancreatitis increases with the duration of pancreatic history, with the age of the patient, as well as with family history. That is, the main reason is the exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis.

About why it is important to identify this disease (and after all, a person can live with it for 15 years and not suspect the presence), and other concomitant factors that lead to cancer, as well as how to avoid this disease, will tell the editorial staff. "Site".





Danish researchers from Aarhus University conducted 13 studies with 14,611 patients with pancreatic cancer. Experts have found that 2 years after the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis, the likelihood of pancreatic cancer increases 16 times. Note that a significant catalyst for the disease is frequent smoking. Alcohol also has an effect, but only with regular use in large quantities.





If you exclude factors such as cigarettes and alcohol, and add a special diet, in patients of the same age as the subjects, the risk of cancer is reduced by 2 times.





The minimum risk of cancer occurred only in the 9th year of chronic disease. Therefore, it is very important to detect chronic pancreatitis in time. An unpleasant trend of the last thirty years is not only in the increase in the incidence of chronic pancreatitis, but also in the shift of the onset of the disease to an earlier age - starting from 39 years, whereas in the last century the disease was diagnosed after 50 years of life.





And this means that the disease of pancreatic cancer is shifting to the area of youth. Another reason for the appearance of malignant formations is magnesium deficiency. The Mayo Clinic’s work complemented a large study by a U.S.-Japanese team that tracked the effects of magnesium deficiency in 66,806 people aged 50-76.





A 25% reduction in the daily dose of magnesium was accompanied by an almost twofold increase in the risk of malignancies, and a lack of every 100 mg of magnesium increased the likelihood of pancreatic cancer by 24%. By the way, a deficiency of magnesium, as well as fat-soluble vitamins, is a consequence of trophological insufficiency in those suffering from chronic pancreatitis.





Of course, not everyone can force themselves to give up cigarettes, alcohol, noisy festivities and other habits. It's everyone's choice. But still visit from time to time a gastroenterologist we advise you. Even if you have pancreatitis, it is much better to be on a special diet for the rest of your life than on chemotherapy. Symptoms resemble gastritis, so many people ignore them.

As soon as you feel that something is wrong with the gastrointestinal tract, go get tested. After all, the main enemy of our health is our laziness and frivolity.





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