Will drinking rice wine for more than 30 years cause liver cancer?

Mr. Wang is 50 years old, lives in Yinzhou District, and does decoration work. He had no other hobbies except drinking. A rough estimate is that he has drank more than 30,000 kilograms of rice wine in the past 30 years. Half a month ago, I went to Yinzhou People's Hospital due to fever and was diagnosed with liver cancer and advanced cirrhosis. I am currently undergoing treatment by hepatobiliary surgery.

He drank more than 30,000 kilograms of rice wine in the past 30 years

According to Mr. Wang’s family, when he was 20 years old, he liked to drink two cups of rice wine, and he especially liked rice wine. . It is said that people who like to drink can find reasons to drink no matter what: such as work and entertainment, gatherings with friends, secretly feeling sad, being in a good mood, etc. Mr. Wang is a master of drinking. He can drink half a catty of wine even with shredded pickles for no reason. He also often summarizes and believes in some so-called "drinking tips": people with blushing faces can drink, drinking will not harm the body as long as they are not drunk, etc., and you must drink at least three or four kilograms of rice wine a day before you can sleep peacefully at night. This drink is 30 years. A rough estimate is that he has drank more than 30,000 kilograms of rice wine in the past 30 years.

Half a month ago, Mr. Wang suddenly developed a high fever and went to the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of Yinzhou People’s Hospital. It was found that he had a 6-centimeter tumor on his liver, indicating that he had advanced liver cirrhosis.

"If you don't get drunk, you won't harm your health" is a fallacy

After asking Mr. Wang about his specific medical history, Dr. Zhu Kelei, who treated him, judged that the main cause was his long-term alcohol abuse. Hearing what the doctor said, Mr. Wang regretted it: "I used to think that drinking alcohol would not harm me as long as I didn't get drunk. If I had known this, I wouldn't have drank so much."

According to Zhu Kelei In the past 30 years, Mr. Wang's body has been in a state of chronic alcoholism, especially his liver, which has suffered irreversible pathological damage due to long-term drinking.

He has received several cases of "alcoholic liver disease" patients like Mr. Wang before. They have a common misunderstanding: they think that they have a good drinking capacity and will not harm themselves as long as they are not drunk, and they It is also believed that the more you drink, the better your liver’s detoxification function will be.

“In fact, their ideas are all wrong. Those so-called good drinkers just have better tolerance to alcohol and the ability to metabolize acetaldehyde. Heavy drinking is harmful to many organs of the human body. The system is greatly damaged, and even causes irreversible pathological damage, such as liver function damage or cirrhosis, severe arrhythmia, heart failure, thrombosis, myocardial infarction, hypertension, etc. In addition, long-term chronic alcohol abuse causes chronic damage to nerve cells. Damage, reduction of nerve synapses, and weakening of bones, especially the femoral neck of the thigh."