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Title: Liver Cancer Linked to Lower Hepatitis C Cure Rate
Post by: Hep Editors on March 11, 2019, 11:04:55 am
People with a history of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, the most common form of liver cancer) have a lower chance of being cured of hepatitis C virus (HCV) through direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy.

Publishing their findings in the Journal of Viral Hepatology, Japanese investigators conducted a retrospective multicenter cohort analysis of data on 838 people who were treated for HCV with DAAs between April 2015 and October 2017. Three hundred seventy (44.2 percent) of the participants were male. Seventy-nine (9.4 percent) had a history of liver cancer.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/liver-cancer-linked-lower-hepatitis-c-cure-rate