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Fatty liver disease - one of the causes of liver cancer - is not only untreated, its causes are on the rise drastically in the world and especially in Western countries. But there is a way to prevent it and it is quite simple
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- obesity
Prof. Ayala Hubert, guest article
Sunday, 09 August 2020, 08:05Advanced liver cancer has been rising drastically and steadily in mortality rates for two decades. According to epidemiological estimates, the upward trend is expected to surpass breast and colon cancer within 12 years and stabilize as the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality. In the United States, the incidence of liver cancer is expected to skyrocket by 149 percent between 2015 and 2030, and the rate of new cases per year is expected to skyrocket by 137 percent within a decade. The corona, as well as the most common HCC liver cancer, can flatten the “mortality curve” through a fundamental change in our lifestyle.
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Liver cancer is a unique tumor, unlike other cancers we know it is formed in a long process as a result of chronic liver disease such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and fatty liver disease. While the first two diseases have a vaccine and treatment that leads to a cure, fatty liver disease not only has no treatment, its causes are on the rise drastically in the world and especially in Western countries.
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The obesity epidemic that until the days of the corona was the most talked about epidemic in the Western world brings with it many background diseases, including fatty liver which is considered to be the most common liver disease in the Western world. The global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is among 25 percent of the population and its incidence increases with an increase in cases of obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Gradual weight loss may reduce the amount of fat in the liver. Man gaining weight (Photo: shutterstock)In Israel, it is estimated that the prevalence of fatty liver is 30 percent of the population. This figure is not surprising since according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics report (2018) about half of the population (48 percent) are in a state of overweight or obesity: 55 percent of men and 41 percent of women.
Fatty liver not only can improve but can even be recovered from through weight loss. Studies have found that gradual weight loss, of half a kilogram per week, improves and even normalizes the levels of liver enzymes and thus may reduce the amount of fat in the liver and improve inflammation and scarring. sometimes it can be improved with proper nutrition and weight loss. weight has been a decline of 10 percent from the initial weight and shows improvement in liver enzyme levels in the blood and decrease the amount of fat in the liver.
the writer is director of the Center for gastrointestinal tumors, Department of Oncology, Hadassah medical Center
