HCV virus increases cancer risk

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HCV virus increases cancer risk

Posted: 04/27/2015 02:52 PM IST
HCV virus increases cancer risk

The research team lead by Lisa Nyberg from Kaiser Permanente, South California have found that the cancer rates in patients with the hepatitis c virus (HCV) were double when compared to those without HCV.

A study was conducted to describe the rates of all cancers in the cohort of HCV patients compared to the non-HCV population. The authors recorded all cancer diagnoses in patients over 18 years of age with or without HCV during 2008-2012.

Totally 145,210 patient years were included in the HCV cohort, and 13,948,826 patient years were included in the non-HCV cohort. There were 2,213 cancer diagnoses (1,524/100,000) during the 5-year period in the HCV cohort and 1,654 cancer diagnoses when liver cancer was excluded (1,139/100,000). In the non-HCV cohort there were 84,419 cancer diagnoses (605/100,000) during the same 5-year period and 83,795 (601/100,000) when liver cancer was excluded.

Finally by analysing the results, the authors concluded that the rate is 2.5 times higher in the HCV cohort and when the liver cancers are excluded the rate is 2 times higher.

"The results suggest that cancer rates are increased in the cohort of hepatitis C patients versus the non-hepatitis C patients, both including and excluding liver cancers," said senior author of the study Lisa Nyberg. “These findings certainly point to the suggestion that hepatitis C may be associated with an increased risk of cancer” Nyberg pointed out.

By Lizitha

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