Liver cancer: Awareness of hepatitis D must be raised

(Université de Genève) Scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) have studied the most serious consequence of chronic hepatitis: hepatocellular carcinoma. They demonstrated that people infected with Hepatitis D have up to three times the risk of developing that particularly aggressive and often fatal liver cancer compared to those infected only with Hepatitis B. These results, to be read in the Journal of Hepatology, plead for systematic scr...