Sunday 3 April 2011

Prevent Liver Cancer


Chronic hepatitis C therapy early on can prevent the development of hardening of the liver (cirrhosis) and liver cancer.

"Hepatitis C can be treated and cured most. The results for the 10-year study showed early treatment may prevent cirrhosis and reduce the risk of liver cancer and death. maintenance costs can also be suppressed, " said Chief Investigator Heart Association Indonesia (PPHI) Dr. Superior Budihusodo, SPPD, KGEH.

According to him, therapy for hepatitis C is primarily intended to remove the virus, stop the progression of the disease and eliminate symptoms
diseases are marked distended abdomen, swollen legs and yellow body.

gold standard therapy for hepatitis C today, he says, treatment with a combination of pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin therapy, with long, depending on HCV genotype.

"The success of therapy is influenced by the genotype of the virus, the amount of virus, patient age, disease state, when starting therapy and patient compliance during therapy, " he said.

Furthermore, he explains, chronic inflammation of the liver infection hepatitis C virus (HCV) did not show early symptoms that can be identified that approximately 90% of people who have hepatitis C do not realize he was infected.

"Around 80-90% of cases showed signs and symptoms are minimal. new symptoms appear when complications have occurred in the advanced stages, when it is bad," he said.

development of liver disease from HCV infection to thethe start of liver cancer , accordingto him , too long between 20 years to 30 years .

Therefore, he continued, should be scanning in high-risk groups are infected with hepatitis C to find the earliest possible cases of hepatitis C infection and to solve it immediately.

the Government together with stakeholders to ensure the disease surveillance system in place to improve case finding that the infection is spread through contact with infected blood or body fluids such as blood transfusion, unsafe sex, tattoos, body piercing and injection needle.

diagnosis of hepatitis C infection, according to Superior, based on the results of hepatitis C virus in blood by scanning anti-HCV and HCV RNA quantitative. (ant / CAx)

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