Hepatocellular Carcinoma Developing in a Patient 29 Years After Achieving Sustained Virologic Response for Hepatitis C With Interferon Therapy: A Case Report
Yosuke Maezawa, Yukiko Kodama, Hiroyuki Ariga, Junya Kashimura, Toshiyuki Irie · 2024
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Yosuke Maezawa, Yukiko Kodama, Hiroyuki Ariga, Junya Kashimura, and Toshiyuki Irie report a 2024 case of liver cancer arising twenty-nine years after a cure of hepatitis C. An eighty-seven-year-old woman came in with sudden pain high in her belly. Scans showed a large, blood-rich mass in her liver that had burst, plus fluid in the belly and a clot in a key vein.
The woman had taken interferon treatment twenty-nine years earlier, and tests then showed the virus gone and no cancer for five years after. The virus was still absent on arrival, and she had skipped all follow-up visits since. No case of this cancer so long after a cure had been reported before. The authors urge long-term scan checks even decades after the virus clears.
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| CREATOR | Yosuke Maezawa, Yukiko Kodama, Hiroyuki Ariga, Junya Kashimura, Toshiyuki Irie |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |