An Astonishing Discovery On How Alcohol Relates To Cancer.

in #steemstem6 years ago

Hello steemstemmers, today we'll be discussing on cancer and alcohol. Everyone wants to enjoy life but no one wishes to be sick or have restrictions to his relaxation. This attitude is the main ingredient to developing cancer in one's body.
Now, is there a relation between the consumption of alcohol and cancer?? The BIG answer is yes. But first, especially to the ignorant, we have to know what exactly is this cancer that just the name dreads people much.
Cancer is a situation in the body when cells grow into abnormality and when not controlled, they turn out to form a tumor which results in the drastic condition. One should also note that it is not all these abnormal cells that end up forming the tumor but some.

CANCER

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Now, this cancer dominates all parts of the body and is therefore broken into various types as related to the various body parts they occupy. The various and common types of cancer are:-

Breast Cancer:- This particular type of cancer is one that forms in the cells of the breasts of human beings, mainly the feminine gender and rarely men. It is often noticed by a lump in the breast, bloody discharge from the nipple and changes in the shape or texture of the nipple or breast.

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Bladder Cancer:- When the human bladder holds urine or waste products for so long or is infected by external viruses, it can lead to what will cause the bladder cancer which eventually leads to more terrifying diseases or even death.

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Prostate Cancer:- This is the cancer that forms in a man's prostate preventing him from being able to reproduce. The prostrate gland in men is a small walnut-sized gland that has the duty of producing the spermatozoa that has a role to play in child bearing. The way one can notice the cancer is when you have difficulty with urinating, but sometimes there are no symptoms at all.

Lung Cancer:- This type of cancer is a deadly and dangerous type of cancer which begins in the lungs and this affects the breathing and if not well managed, it would definitely lead to a very quick death.

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Leukemia:- This is a cancer of blood-forming tissues, hindering the body cells ability to fight diseases and other alien organisms which therefore results in the cancer.

Colorectal Cancer:- The cancer is that located at the digestive tract lower chamber and which affects the colon or rectum.

Lymphoma:- This particular type of cancer is that of the lymphatic system of the human body.

Liver Cancer:- It is a situation when the liver stops performing it's function in the body due to over-stress or under-stress.

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Melanoma:- Now, it would be right to say that many don't know this word and yet they fight to improve their beauty everyday. This cancer is the cancer of the skin and it is the most serious type of cancer because the other types kill from within and can mostly be cured but this type, kills from the outside and if not properly handled, it will cause a whole lot of damage and probably, you would be looking forward to skin grafting or plastic surgery which could and would disfigure your appearance.

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ALCOHOL
Speaking now of alcohol, we know how it is widely used in almost all aspects of celebrations, entertainment and parties. The substance is licensed Internationally as for only humans of above eighteen years of age but at this time, you would be less shocked seeing a child of fifteen, sixteen years taking it and on some occasions, the parents seat there watching and even encouraging the attitude. Alcohol is widely used to either put someone in a sober state or depressed state.

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Now, what exactly is Alcohol????????? ALCOHOL is a colorless and volatile flammable liquid which is made when sugar ferments naturally and it is that intoxicant which is used in the production of beers, wines, spirits and some other drinks. On another occasion, it can also be used as an industrial solvent and sometimes as fuel.
Speaking chemically, alcohol is known as any organic compound whose molecule contains one or more hydroxide groups that is attached to a carbon(C ) atom. The term ALCOHOL originally refers to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages..

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THE RELATIONSHIP

In recent study by researchers, it has been discovered that people who drank only little alcohol in their lifetime were often not incurring the cancer disease and those who drank more or surprisingly none, were those who were diagnosed with the disease. In actual findings, the people who had less than seven bottles of alcohol in a week had the lowest risk of developing cancer and even death itself. Now, the scientists also discovered that if you were among those who had lower risk of cancer and then you increased your rate of alcohol consumption, you automatically move upward to those who had the risk. This entails that if you take little, keep taking that quantity and not reduce or go higher.
An author and a postdoctoral researcher at the Queen's University Belfast, Ireland, Andrew Kunzmann stated that why the new discovery was made was because for a long time now, scientists had been looking at alcohol and cancer separately in relation to death. He stressed that all that was expressed and emphasized was the fact that people who heavily consumed alcohol were liable to die early and those who drank less or never were safe.
But on this study, it was discovered that never drinkers were safe from other diseases that could lead to death, YES, but they were open to cancer because alcohol has a role to play in body defenses .

ALCOHOL ROLE IN BODY DEFENSES
Now, questions might arise on how can Alcohol help in the body defense but this is so because when you drink wine, beer and some but not all alcoholic products, they can can help save you from cholera, E. Coli and Ulcers sicknesses. It does this by killing the pathogens in the human gut or bloodstream, much the way alcohol in the bloodstream of fruit flies kills their parasites. Secondly,you might not be exposed to cholera at all if all the liquid substances you consume are boiled or spirits. Alcohol we know is done by FERMENTATION and this bring about high concentration of alcohol itself and when alcohol with a high concentration is added to a substance with cholera, it died quickly.Now, as I said earlier Individuals who drink wine or beer regularly but modestly or that have done so throughout their lives are at a reduced risk of the ulcer and gastric-cancer causing bacteria Helicobacter pylori because the wine kills cells of the pathogen Listeria innocua. Speaking further on how Alcohol can become a parasite, the individuals who drink very heavily have in their body the acid content of the stomach reduced and, separately, their immune systems become compromised. Together, the reduced acidity of the stomach and reduced potency of the immune system actually appear to increase the odds that heavy drinkers contract cholera.
The major cancers associated with alcohol is the liver, colorectal and breast cancers which kills from within.

TREATMENT AND CONTROL FOR ALCOHOL RELATED CANCERS

The researchers having discovered the causes of this cancers and their relationship to alcohol have also ran tests and experiments to find out that when a heavy consumer of alcohol reduces his/her drinking, the body system normalizes after a while and thereafter, he has to keep taking it but, mildly.
Generally, both men and women should have in a week, fewer than six drinks and speaking separately, men and women of course have different body phenomena so for the females, they should have less than one drink a day and this means that they shouldn't consume a whole bottle but literally, take just a portion and for the masculine gender, they should take not more than two full bottles a day which also means that a bottle and half is enough for a man.
This is necessary because those who consume alcohol lightly, have some benefits such as cardiovascular protection and healthy liver function.

CONCLUSION
The advice and talk is for all who wish to live a longer live and not experience any of these discouraging illnesses. The urge to consume heavily is in all especially the younger generation but eventually, you can still enjoy yourself by taking a little especially the men who can take more than a bottle a day but not more than two.

REFERENCES
1.WHAT IS CANCER??--:CANCER CENTER
2.TYPES OF CANCER--:WIKIPEDIA
3.DEFINITIONS OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCER:--WIKIPEDIA
4.ALCOHOL ROLE IN BODY DEFENSES:--SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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@ewuoso (the steem beer man) come and read this.

I am not a lover of beer anyway. Haven't had a bottle since I was born. I just don't fancy it.
The actual cause of cancer is still not known to man. Although there are cases of possible causes but those are just likely causes. We do not know the origin yet. Or am I the one that does not know yet? I guess I need to make some researches.

Thank you for this @xander-cage. Learnt many stuffs here.


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I don't like beer

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