Why is it that if one person has cancer, family members are also susceptible to cancer?

If couples “share the same disease”, so that there is still a trace of romance in addition to the misfortune, then “couples cancer” brings people more is the fear. As a matter of fact, it is not uncommon for both husband and wife to suffer from cancer at the same time or successively, and the trend is increasing. According to clinical investigation, in recent years, with the increase of environmental changes and bad lifestyle, the incidence rate of tumors has been increasing, and the cases of both husband and wife suffering from cancer at the same time or successively are also on the rise. “Although the overall incidence of ‘husband and wife cancer’ is not much, it has been increasing year by year, and the older the husband and wife are, the higher the incidence rate is.” The increasing phenomenon of “husband and wife cancer” should attract people’s attention, because a large number of epidemiological investigations, animal experiments and clinical observations have found that poor lifestyle and dietary habits are important triggers for many kinds of cancers. Therefore, the emergence of “husband and wife cancer” is likely to be caused by the fact that husband and wife are in the same disease-causing environment, that is to say, the same living environment and lifestyle have caused them to suffer from the disease together. If one of the partners has already detected precancerous lesions or cancer, especially digestive tract tumor, the other partner should pay more attention to it and change the bad living and dietary habits as soon as possible. One of the couple’s cancers is: favoring frying, grilling and deep-frying Stomach cancer risk is high Stomach cancer, as a high incidence of disease, has a relationship with dietary habits, gastric Helicobacter pylori infection and other factors. Couples who live together for a long time will not only influence each other’s interests and hobbies, but also be influenced by each other’s living and dietary tastes. It can be seen through inquiring the medical history that some families, after a long period of time, love to eat grilled, pan-fried, deep-fried and smoked food, which contain a lot of strong carcinogens, and the risk of gastric cancer increases when eating them. The risk of stomach cancer will increase. Studies have shown that the risk of stomach cancer is about twice as high as that of normal people when they eat such foods regularly. In fact, high salt diet not only damages gastric mucosa and increases its susceptibility to carcinogens, but also slows down gastric emptying and prolongs the contact time between carcinogens and gastric mucosa. Helicobacter pylori, which can cause gastric cancer, is highly contagious and can be transmitted through hands, unclean food, unclean tableware and feces, etc. If one of the husband and wife is infected, the other will easily get sick too. Couple’s Cancer No.2: Favoring hot and spicy food is easy to get esophageal cancer. Esophageal cancer is also easy to get among couple’s cancers, and its incidence is related to many factors such as smoking, drinking and eating too much spicy food. Some people may not smoke, but their husbands or wives smoke all day long, or even smoke one or two packs of cigarettes a day, inhaling second-hand smoke is also a potential risk factor. For esophageal cancer, cigarette smoke and alcohol can strongly stimulate the esophageal mucosa, which is one of the most important causative factors of esophageal cancer. Research shows that people who smoke and drink heavily are dozens of times more likely to develop esophageal cancer than those who only smoke or drink heavily. Spicy, dry, hard and rough food can produce chronic stimulation to the esophageal mucosa, causing local epithelial cell proliferation, and eventually leading to cancer. Therefore, the whole family likes to eat chili, pepper or spicy hot pot, or all like to eat just out of the pot dumplings, hot water or hard cake family, it is best to change these bad habits in time. Of course, the harm of smoking is not only on the esophagus, often smoky family, both spouses will greatly increase the chance of lung cancer. Eat leftovers Carcinogenic rate of large Love to eat kimchi, sauerkraut and other pickled foods, or leftovers can not be poured out, the next hot to eat, but also some of the family’s usual habits, in fact, this is also brewing cancer. Research shows that sauerkraut, pickles, salted vegetables, salted fish and other pickled foods contain a large number of nitrite substances, with strong carcinogenicity. Corrupt and spoiled food is also terrible, they are also a large number of nitrite substances gathering place. Families with such living habits are naturally prone to cancer piling up. Husband and wife cancer No. 3: The whole family loves to eat meat Beware of colon cancer High-fat, high-calorie, low-fiber diets and the lack of selenium, zinc, calcium, magnesium and other trace elements will greatly increase the risk of colon cancer and rectal cancer. Some people believe that obesity is born, but life, many families are the whole family love to eat meat, generally high weight. Fat for colon and rectal cancer, it itself is not carcinogenic, but excessive fat into the body will stimulate the gallbladder secretion of bile acids and cholesterol increase in the role of anaerobic bacteria in the intestines, bile acids, cholesterol will become carcinogenic unsaturated polycyclic hydrocarbons, and its prolonged action in the colorectal mucosa is easy to cause cancer. And food fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, increase the amount of feces, shorten the role of carcinogens on the colorectal mucosa time, and thus has the effect of inhibiting colorectal cancer. Therefore, the diet of meat, eat less fresh vegetables, fruits and other dietary fiber-rich food families, including rarely eat coarse grains, mixed grains, the risk of colorectal cancer will increase. Couple cancer prevention should be determined to change the bad habits to stay away from “husband and wife cancer”, the key is still in the prevention. For example, couples with the above mentioned bad dietary habits, it is better to abandon the bad dietary habits in time, establish a balanced dietary structure with reasonable combination of fish, meat, eggs, milk, beans, vegetables, fruits, coarse grains and fine grains, as well as change the bad lifestyles such as smoking, staying up late, and sitting too much and moving too little. When one party has bad habits, the other party should be persuaded not to let nature take its course, turn a blind eye to them, or even be “infected” with the same preference, but should actively correct them so that the other party can improve as soon as possible. Of course, if the spouse is unfortunate enough to suffer from cancer, the healthy spouse should not be overly worried and fearful. He or she should review the possible causes of cancer from the perspective of his or her lifestyle, and encourage him or her to actively undergo treatment, and at the same time, it is best for him or her to check his or her own body in time to enhance the awareness of self-prevention of cancer.