Epidemiology

Hepatitis C virus presents risk for liver cancer in adults with AIDS

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 6th, 2003

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Government researchers have established a connection between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and liver cancer but not HCV infection and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in people with AIDS.

"HCV is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and possibly NHL, but the impact of AIDS on these associations is uncertain," said Eric A. Engels of the Viral Epidemiology Branch at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.

Engels and NCI colleagues reviewed information from a U.S. database to assess the etiology of HCC and NHL in more than 300,000 adults with AIDS.

"The ratio of observed to...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2003-01-06)

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