Diabetes doubles liver cancer risk for patients with advanced hepatitis C
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 13:49
in Health & Medicine
Patients who have chronic hepatitis C with advanced fibrosis have twice the risk of developing liver cancer if they also have diabetes. These findings are published in the June issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
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