Friday, September 8, 2017
News Recap:
She thought her mystery ailment was cancer, but bloodwork revealed a surprise
This is an amazing story ...but it could happen to anyone, and we know this because we hear these kinds of stories often. This is why it is so important that Boomers be tested for hepatitis C. Gail Wells got really sick and nobody could figure out why. They looked for cancer, for multiple sclerosis, for vitamin deficiencies, and then s...
This new article by Raoel Maan and Jordan J. Feld will be published in Gastroenterology (2017), doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2017.08.052 It is in press, but courtesy of HCV New Drugs we are able to provide you with a pdf of the accepted manuscript.
Several studies of patients treated with interferon -based therapy nicely documented that the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was markedly lower in patients who achieved SVR compared to those without SVR. 5-
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients treated with direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis appear to have high rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) – Will Boggs MD.
"If these findings are confirmed from other centers, studies are suggested to examine mechanisms of these findings," Dr. Ashwani Singal from University of Alabama at Birmingham told Reuters Health by email.
Some studies have shown unexpectedly h
Friday, November 18, 2016
AASLD, 2016: Focus on Liver Cancer and DAAs
This year at The Liver Meeting® — held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD 2016) — there were a lot of presentations on Liver Cancer (HCC) and the new DAAs. Over the past decade, the prevalence of cirrhosis has increased by almost 40 percent among people with hepatitis C (HCV) in the United States. The proportion of hepatitis C patients with cirrhosi...
BOSTON, Nov. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study presented this week at The Liver Meeting® — held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases — found patients with hepatitis C who take direct-acting antiviral medication are at no higher risk for developing liver cancer than those who do not take the medication. However, they might be at an increased for more aggressive, infiltrative patterns of cancer, should they develop it.
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