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. 1991 Apr 17;265(15):1974-6.

Hepatitis B and C viruses and their interaction in the origin of hepatocellular carcinoma

E Kaklamani  1 , D Trichopoulos, A Tzonou, X Zavitsanos, Y Koumantaki, A Hatzakis, C C Hsieh, S Hatziyannis
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Hepatitis B and C viruses and their interaction in the origin of hepatocellular carcinoma

E Kaklamani et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

Serum taken from patients in a case-control study in Athens, Greece, was used to examine the interactive roles of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the origin of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). An enzyme immunoassay for anti-HCV was used to test serum taken from 185 cases with HCC, 35 cases with metastatic liver cancer (MLC), and 432 hospital controls. Weakly positive anti-HCV results were more strongly related to MLC than to HCC, implying that these anti-HCV results are false positive. By contrast, strongly positive anti-HCV results were significantly related to HCC (relative risk [RR], 6.3), whereas no significant association was evident for MLC (RR, 0.6). The association of anti-HCV with HCC was substantially higher among subjects whose radioimmunoassay was positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (RR, 20.0) than among those whose radioimmunoassay was negative for this marker (RR, 4.8). These findings indicate that HCV infection has an interactive role in the origin of HCC.

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