Cancer can be in a variety of Ways. It can lie dormant in our genes, or by toxins such as alcohol, Smoking or polluted air. However, certain viruses and bacteria can be a cause of Cancer. With FOCUS Online, you will learn how you can protect yourself.
Whether or not we develop cancer, is not only in the genes or unhealthy way of life. Cancer can also meet you in a similar way as a flu. Because more than two million of the nearly 14 million cancer cases worldwide are caused by bacteria and viruses. That is to say, more than 15 percent of all patients have received their cancer through an infection.
As study Director Marytn Plummer told the Rheinische Post, the number is even greater if HIV would be taken Ill. Although the HI-Virus does not evoke directly the cancer, but the immune deficiency disease AIDS, the body is more vulnerable and cancer cells can be a bad fight.
Almost all of the infectious cancer will have dropped back to four germs: the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the Hepatis B (HBV) and C virus (HCV) and the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
4 common cancer triggers
1. Cancer of the stomach by Helicobacter Pylori
About a quarter of the German population carries the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori. Most of you know and feel life is nothing. And although Helicobacter pylori is now considered the biggest risk for cancer of the stomach, suffering only a fraction of those Infected actually of cancer. The bacterium attacks the gastric mucosa, in which it has taken root. Helicobacter is for 75 percent of all stomach ulcers are responsible. From such a stomach ulcers gastric cancer occurs particularly easily, what in Germany every year, more than 9,000 men and 6,000 women are diagnosed.
But who in his family, close relatives, suffering from cancer of the stomach, can be tested. Then the bacterium with a combination of antibiotics and stomach acid blockers good look.
2. and 3. Cancer of the liver by Hepatitis viruses B and C
The two Hepatitis viruses B and C, especially for liver inflammation. In Germany, they are mainly by excessive alcohol consumption is the second most common cause of liver cancer. It 8500 German are diagnosed annually. But even if the Numbers are relatively small, anyone who is ill, has only a small chance of Survival. Only every seventh Patient is alive five years after diagnosis.
The Good thing is, you can vaccinate against Hepatitis B. Especially high-risk groups such as nurses, hospital staff or travelers to Africa and South-East Asia should rely on. The vaccination is particularly important because persons with a chronic Hepatitis C infection can still hope for a complete cure.
For Hepatitis C there is still no vaccine, but infection with the Virus is treatable.
4. Cervical cancer due to Human Papilloma virus (HPV)
Of the Human Papilloma virus there is a whole series. Many of them produce only small and mostly harmless infections that show up as warts. Dangerous types, such as HPV-16 and HPV-18. They are considered to be carcinogenic, and especially the cervix to cause cancer. This Tumor 4000 women in Germany fall ill in spite of available vaccination annually.
However, according to the infekion practitioner Jan Leidel only women are at risk. "We now know that HPV is not just cervical cancer but also anal cancer, penis cancer, vulva cancer, vagina cancer and types of cancer in the mouth and throat area." In men who have Sex with men, anal cancer is almost as common as cervical cancer in women.
Since we can be infected, especially when intercourse with the Human Papilloma virus is caught during Sex to take special care. A non-negligible risk of oral sex. In this, the viruses can be transmitted as well as Vaginal or anal sex. A simple protection condoms offer.