Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Treated with Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents and Occurrence/Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Does It Still Matter?
Carlo Smirne, Maria Grazia Crobu, Irene Landi, Nicole Vercellino, Daria Apostolo, David James Pinato, Federica Vincenzi, Rosalba Minisini, Stelvio Tonello, Davide D’Onghia, Antonio Ottobrelli, Silvia Martini, Christian Bracco, Luigi Maria Fenoglio, Mauro Campanini, Alessandro Maria Berton, Alessia C · 2024
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Carlo Smirne and co-authors review whether liver cancer risk fades after hepatitis C is cured with modern drugs, in a paper from 2024. The virus is a major cause of liver scarring and liver cancer. New direct-acting drugs clear the virus in nearly all patients.
Even after cure, people who already had advanced scarring can still develop liver cancer, or see it return. The review explains how years of infection create a setting in the liver that favors tumors, and how some of that risk persists. It then weighs recent studies of treated patients. Those studies find no higher cancer risk from the drugs. In fact, treated patients had much lower cancer rates than untreated ones. Practical advice for follow-up care is also given.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Carlo Smirne, Maria Grazia Crobu, Irene Landi, Nicole Vercellino, Daria Apostolo, David James Pinato, Federica Vincenzi, Rosalba Minisini, Stelvio Tonello, Davide D’Onghia, Antonio Ottobrelli, Silvia Martini, Christian Bracco, Luigi Maria Fenoglio, Mauro Campanini, Alessandro Maria Berton, Alessia C |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |