Interior Department, Cam Khe District Medical Center (Phu Tho), receiving male patients, 38 years old (Cam Khe, Phu Tho) hospitalized for sore throat, coughing up blood.
According to the patient's mother, the man has a history of alcohol abuse, drinking about 1 liter of alcohol a day.From 7 days now, patients cough a lot, coughing with bright red blood and sputum amount about 10ml/ time, chest pain a lot, feeling of shortness of breath with sore throat, increased pain, poor eating ....
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At the time of hospitalization, the patient woke up slowly, tired, skinny, dark skin, yellow eyes, tremor, sore throat, swallowing pain, coughing every hour, sputum sputum less blood.Endoscopy nose and throat gives results: Sinus tumors (monitoring: carcinoma).
The patient was prescribed a referral on treatment, suspected sinus cancer.Sinus pear is a position of the lower throat.
Dr. Mai Thi Hanh - Department of Internal General Department said that for this patient, it has not been determined the exact cause of the tumor in the pear sinus but alcohol may be a factor related to this pathology.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO): drinking alcohol (ethanol) is classified as a group of substances that cause 7 cancers such as oral cavity, throat cancer, laryngeal cancer;Liver cancer;Esophageal cancer;Colorectal cancer and breast cancer in women.
The reason given by WHO: Because when using alcohol, 95% of alcohol is transformed through the liver into new compounds, under the effect of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, alcohol is oxidized into acetaldehyde, this substance attacks DNAmultiplying cancer cells.
In addition, the more alcohol drinks, the more acetaldehyde content in saliva will increase, contributing to damaging DNA in the oral mucosa cells, throat, esophagus and respiratory tract.Therefore, alcoholic abuse people are at higher risk of cancer than normal people.