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Author Topic: Increase in U.S. Liver Cancer Rates Has Slowed, but Not in Baby Boomers  (Read 5721 times)

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The increasing rate of liver cancer that the United States has seen this century has slowed in recent years, although not among baby boomers (individuals born between 1945 and 1965), who have the highest rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV). But the introduction of new, highly effective hep C treatments in 2013 may eventually begin to improve these trends among older Americans.

Publishing their findings in the journal Gastroenterology, researchers analyzed data from the U.S. Cancer Statistics registry, which covers 97 percent of the U.S. population.

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