Cirrhosis often naturally increase risk of throat cancer
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Cirrhosis often naturally increase risk of throat cancer - People who experience frequent heartburn pirosis or likely to have throat cancer risk and higher vocal cords, even if they do not smoke or drink alcohol, according to new research.
Pirosis or heartburn is a burning sensation that often is felt in the abdomen, chest, and can continue to spread down to the neck. Interestingly, some kind of antacid like Prilosec, Nexium, and Prevacid are known to prevent this type of cancer.
"There is some controversy over whether heartburn associated with risk of cancer of the larynx or pharynx. We found that heartburn can indeed increase the risk of throat cancer. There are at least 78 percent of cancer-related increase in people who are experiencing severe heartburn," said lead researcher Scott Langevin of Brown University in Providence, RI
These results were found after their researchers compared 600 patients with cancer of the throat and vocal cords with more than 1,300 people with no history of having cancer. All patients were asked about their heartburn naturally, smoking and alcohol drinking, and family history of cancer.
In addition, because of head and neck cancer is usually caused by HPV (human papillomavirus) researchers tested all participants with the virus antigen.
The result, researchers found that participants who were not heavy smokers and alcohol drinkers, but often experience heartburn have an increased risk of throat cancer by 78 percent, as reported by U.S. News.
Researchers also found that taking antacid, cancer risk can be decreased to 41 percent. Even so researchers do not yet know the performance of antacid to prevent and reduce the risk of throat cancer. They argue that more research should be done regarding the effect of antacid on throat cancer.
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