Prevention of Liver Cancer

The growth of liver cancer can be prevented. The key is a healthy lifestyle and discipline in maintaining health. Such measures include:

Healthy eating.

Avoiding away from obesity with regular exercise.

Avoid themselves from the risk factors for liver cancer such as hepatitis C and hepatitis B.

Limiting consumption of liquor.

Hepatitis B vaccine

You can avoid the risk of hepatitis B vaccine. In Indonesia, the hepatitis B vaccine has been part immunizations must be taken at birth and at two, four and six months. However, adults of any age should receive this vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccine is also recommended for people at high risk groups as follows:

People with chronic renal failure and chronic liver disease.

People who frequently change sexual partners.

Medics and patients injecting drug users.

Close relatives of people with chronic hepatitis B.

People who receive regular blood donor.

Inmates and prison staff.

The risk of transmitting hepatitis C

Often infected with hepatitis C virus through the blood of an infected person to another. This causes hepatitis C generally occurs among drug users, especially those who share drug use tools such as needles carelessly. Here are some things you can do to minimize risk:

Avoiding the use of personal items together. Avoid exchange of contaminated blood of others such as earrings, razors or toothbrushes.

It is advised to use contraceptive condom during sex, because hepatitis C can also be transmitted through body fluids such as semen.

It would be better if you are more concerned with assuming that whoever may have been infected with hepatitis C. Many people with hepatitis C alone did not realize that he contracted the disease, so they do not take care of myself. This can be caused by hepatitis C can appear without the accompaniment of significant symptoms in many years.

Limit or avoid consumption of liquor

If you consume alcohol, you should not exceed the limit of consumption per day. The recommended limit is about 2.5 cans of beer for men and up to 2 cans of beer per day for women. Even so, the decision to stop consuming alcohol is the recommended steps are most effective in reducing the risk of developing liver cancer.