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According to Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine Dr. Robert H. Resnick '52, 40 percent of the 1,930 patients in his first-ever worldwide study of Hepatitis C individuals diagnosed with liver cancer tested positive for the Hepatitis C virus...
While it has long been known that the Hepatitis B virus leads to primary liver-cell cancer, researchers now believe that Hepatitis C also contributes to its formation. Primary liver-cell cancer is cancer which originates in the liver, as opposed to metastatic cancer, which spreads to the liver from other regions of the body...
...Resnick's study did not determine the number of B positive patients, and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Bruce D. Walker says that it is not clear that Hepatitis C alone, rather than untested-for Hepatitis B virus or another causative agent, is sufficient to cause liver-cell cancer...
Resnick insists that both viruses are prevalent in liver-cell cancer--not as cofactors but instead working independently. He says it can be shown that the absence of one virus make the other more probable...
...Liver-cell cancer is most prevalent in Asia and Africa. But because such cancer is responsible for less than one percent of all cancer-related deaths in the U.S., Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine Dr. Kurt J. Isselbacher says Resnick's research is not as crucial to U.S. citizens as those in other parts of the world...