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This document outlines the connections between the CDC's health priority areas and liver cancer. It discusses how tobacco use, injuries/diseases like hepatitis and obesity, HIV/STIs, drug and alcohol use, diet and nutrition, and physical fitness can affect or be affected by liver cancer. Heavy smoking, long term alcohol use, hepatitis B and C infections, and obesity are highlighted as significant risk factors for developing liver cancer. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise, and avoiding risky behaviors can help prevent liver cancer and assist with recovery.

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This document outlines the connections between the CDC's health priority areas and liver cancer. It discusses how tobacco use, injuries/diseases like hepatitis and obesity, HIV/STIs, drug and alcohol use, diet and nutrition, and physical fitness can affect or be affected by liver cancer. Heavy smoking, long term alcohol use, hepatitis B and C infections, and obesity are highlighted as significant risk factors for developing liver cancer. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise, and avoiding risky behaviors can help prevent liver cancer and assist with recovery.

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Interconnections Chart Between the CDCs Health Priority Areas

Priority Area How it Affects or is Affected By Your Topic

Tobacco Use Use of tobacco or smoking cigarettes has been proven to be a contributing risk
factor to liver damage and development of liver cancers. Risk of liver cancer is
exponentially higher for smokers with an already present liver disease.
Smoking induces three major adverse effects on the liver: toxic effects either
direct or indirect, immunological effects and oncogenic effects. (PMC)

Lighting a cigarette creates over 4000 harmful chemicals with hazardous adverse
effects on almost every organ in the body. The impact of heavy smoking on the
pathogenesis of liver disease and response to interferon therapy among chronic
hepatitis patients has been overlooked. (PMC)

Intentional or Some people with certain diseases are more prone to developing liver cancer.
Unintentional Injuries HBV and Hep C being the leading diseases in causing the cancer. The second
(diseases and mental largest health issues known to cause liver cancer is obesity and diabetes.
People with this blood sugar disorder have a greater risk of liver cancer than
health issues)
those who don't have diabetes. (mayo clinic)

Other liver diseases can cause liver cancer as well.


Liver diseases that can increase the risk of liver cancer include hemochromatosis
and Wilson's disease. (mayo clinic)

HIV/STI, Unintended Hepatitis B and C viruses, which have the potential to be spread through sexual
Pregnancy contact, have been proven to be a big risk for liver cancer.
(or other sexuality issues)
People with hepatitis B and hepatitis C have the greatest risk of liver cancer. In
the U.S., approximately 65 percent of liver cancer cases are related to hepatitis B
or C, with nearly 50 percent attributable to hepatitis C alone. (CDC)

According to studies by Pubmed.gov, HCV related liver cancer is a greater


possibility than an alcohol caused cancer.

The risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is greater in HCV-related


cirrhosis than in alcoholic cirrhosis. (pubmed.gov)
Drug and Alcohol Use Heavy alcohol use is very damaging to the liver, and can cause liver cancer in
some cases.
Long-term alcohol use has been linked to an increased risk of liver cancer.
Regular, heavy alcohol use can damage the liver, leading to inflammation. This, in
turn, might raise the risk of liver cancer. (American Cancer Society)

Alcohol itself is directly toxic to liver cells. In addition, alcohol abuse is a major
cause of cirrhosis, a gradual form of liver damage in which scar tissue replaces
healthy tissue, causing the liver to malfunction.
A study in the American Journal of Public Health concluded that alcohol use
accounted for approximately 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths in 2009-2010.
(Dana Farber Cancer Institute)

Healthful Nutrition and A healthy diet is highly recommended and very helpful to liver cancer patients.
Dietary Practices Various study concludes that there are eating patterns and habits that have been
proven to positively impact patients of liver cancer.
One of the best things you can do after cancer treatment is to start healthy eating
habits. (American Cancer Society)

Dietary Therapy has been a known factor in curing liver cancer. PubMed explains
how this therapy works:
The therapy consists of high potassium, low sodium diet, with no fats or oils, and
minimal animal proteins. Juices of raw fruits and vegetables and of raw liver
provide active oxidizing enzymes which facilitate rehabilitation of the liver. Iodine
and niacin supplementation is used. Caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts,
which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and
dialysis of toxic products from blood across the colonic wall. The therapy must be
used as an integrated whole. Parts of the therapy used in isolation will not be
successful. This therapy has cured many cases of advanced cancer.

Physical Fitness (care of Since obesity is a large risk factor for developing liver cancer, physical fitness is
the body) important in preventing it.
Obesity and diabetes are closely associated with a type of liver abnormality called
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that may increase the risk of liver cancer

According to the American Cancer Society,


Studies have shown that patients who follow an exercise program tailored to their
personal needs feel better physically and emotionally and can cope better, too.

Physical fitness is not only important in lowering your risk for liver cancer, but also
for cancer patients. Care of your body is vital in dealing with and recovering from
liver cancer.
"Leisure-time physical activity is known to reduce risks of heart disease and risk of
death from all causes, and our study demonstrates that it is also associated with
lower risks of many types of cancer," (National Cancer Institute)

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