Hijab Reduce Cancer Risk

Hijab Reduce Cancer Risk

Today, the veil is no longer a phenomenon particular social group, but has become a phenomenon of the whole society. Not a few number of artists, executives, and other public figures like and use it.

Fortunately you are already wearing the hijab (veil), the veiling of Muslim women is not only demonstrate humility and modesty, but also protect you from deadly disease.

hijab is known by several terms, such as the chador (Iranian), pardeh (India and Pakistan), milayat (Libya), abaya (Iraq), charshaf (Turkey), hijab (Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen), can reduce the risk exposure of the wearer cancer of the throat and nose. The reason, the hijab was able to filter out a number of viruses that like to drop into the upper respiratory tract.

Professor Kamal Malaker of Canada stated:

Saudi Arabian women - most of which cover the full-face rarely struck by the Epstein Barr virus, which causes nasopharyngeal cancer. You could say the number of patients with this type of cancer is very low.

"Hijab protects women from the upper respiratory tract infection," wrote the Saudi Gazette, Friday (19 / 3), quoted Malaker, "In Saudi Arabia, the number of women with nasopharyngeal cancer is very low compared to men," continued Malaker.

"This fact is interesting, how traditional clothes are so simple to have so much influence on human life," said Malaker, head of radiation oncology King Abdul Aziz Hospital.

Nasopharyngeal cancer is cancer that affects many people for most cancer types Ear-Nose-Throat, Head-Neck cancers.

The high rates of nasopharyngeal cancer patients mainly due to the presence of Epstein Barr virus which is almost there at 90 percent of people in developing countries. If the virus is 'awakened', they can lead to cell mutations that lead to nasopharyngeal cancer.

Nasopharyngeal tract is located behind the nose, precisely on the oral cavity.

Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer, among other symptoms in the ear which is characterized by persistent ringing in the ears.

In addition, often accompanied by symptoms such as runny nose is accompanied by prolonged blood, prolonged hoarseness, frequent nosebleeds and painful swallowing.

Nasopharyngeal cancer is cancer the fourth most common in cancer patients in Indonesia.