Monday, October 23, 2017

The Liver Meeting® 2017 - Vets with HCV Might Settle Cancer Controversy

Vets with HCV Might Settle Cancer Controversy
VA experience seems to rule out possible cancer-causing effect of new drugs

by Michael Smith Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
October 23, 2017

WASHINGTON -- Analysis of America's veterans might have closed the books on a controversy over modern hepatitis C (HCV) treatment.

In the largest cohort analyzed to date -- some 62,000 patients in the VA system -- there is no evidence that therapy with newer agents that act directly against the virus (DAAs) increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to George Ioannou, BMBCh, of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle.

In fact, curing HCV with the DAAs is associated with a 71% reduction in the risk of HCC -- much the same picture seen after a cure with earlier regimens, Ioannou told reporters at the Liver Meeting, the annual conference of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

Read the article at MedPage Today.

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