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Study Finds No Association Between Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and HCV

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 3rd, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Members of a research team in France see no link between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Based on data gathered from a study of more than 800 patients admitted to a hematology department of a research hospital in France, P. Hausfater and colleagues at CHU Pitie-Salpetriere have concluded there is no evidence to connect HCV infection to B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma among French patients.

In the prospective, controlled study, members of the research group assessed HCV antibody status in patients with a number of diseases such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, multiple...

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