Hepatitis C And Liver Cancer

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Hepatitis C is a deadly disease borne basically out of blood and primarily attacks the liver of the victim. A number of causes can be attributed to this infection, the main one being alcoholism. Moreover, being an extremely contagious infection, non-alcoholics can also acquire this disease through several ways, like blood transfusion, sharing razor blades, sharing snorting straws during cocaine intake, etc. an the interesting part is that the victim would not even know that he has acquired the virus as it takes years for to develop itself inside the liver.

Now victims with cirrhosis or the condition where the liver gets scarred, males and over forty years of age are most likely to get infected with liver cancer related to HCV (Hepatitis C virus). As a matter of fact, hepatitis C invariably ends with cancer of the liver. It is estimated that about half of the cancer of the liver cases around the globe has been caused by the hepatitis C virus. This is so since this virus lies undetected for years and even decades, and, thus, when it reveals itself, it goes into a chronic stage where cure is limited. Several side effects like liver cirrhosis, total failure of the liver, and cancer of the liver result.

The data revealed by a scientific study involving alcoholic patients with cancer of the liver of Sweden in October of 2001 shows that victims with chronic case of hepatitis C are 32 times more likely to get infected with cancer of the liver. And, liver cancer is such a condition which, if detected early, can be cured, but if goes undetected for a long time, then it can spread to other parts of the body, causing slow death to the person.

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Hepatitis C is an extremely dangerous disease to acquire as it is spread through blood and, thus, cripples the victim from within. The virus causing this disease is extremely hard to detect as it lies dormant in the liver cells for years together before fully developing itself to attack the body. In fact, it has been seen that almost 75 percent of the hepatitis C patients did not even know that they were infected with the virus before the final stage. More..