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Amy Lin1, Jaydeep S Kadam, Henry C Bodenheimer
1Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
Abstract:
Chronic hepatitis C virus HCV infection progresses through liver fibrosis and cirrhosis to hepatocellular carcinoma HCC. It appears to be causally related to B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since regression after antiviral therapy has been described. Two cases are described of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and HCC arising simultaneously in two patients. The first patient did not have cirrhosis on liver biopsy. HCV had been undetectable in plasma following successful therapy with interferon and ribavirin treatment 7 years earlier. The second patient developed an aggressive form of hepatocellular carcinoma HCC within weeks of stopping treatment with interferon and ribavirin. Therapy had induced complete viral suppression for over 40 weeks. The two cases suggest that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and HCC can develop in the absence of detectable hepatitis C viremia and argues for continued surveillance even after sustained virological response to treatment.
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