"Effects of Interferon Treatment on the Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Chronic Hepatitis C."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 1996 Proceedings of the Shanghai International Symposium on Liver Cancer and Hepatitis, held March 5-7, 1996, in Shanghai, China, "Epidemiological surveys of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have shown that several risk factors are associated with this common neoplasm, infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is especially important in Africa and Southeast Asia. However, in Japan, the proportion of HBsAg-positive patients with HCC is decreasing, whereas there is a increase in HCC with hepatitis C virus (HCV) that was associated with the increasing number of patients with chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis with HCV. Annual incidence of HCC...

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