Relationship between hepatitis B and lymphoma

The results of a US study published on August 3 showed that people infected with hepatitis B are twice as likely to develop lymphoma (lymphoma) than those without hepatitis B.

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Dr. Eric Engels of the US National Cancer Institute and Dr. Sun Ha Jee of Yonsei University, Korea conducted a medical study of more than 600,000 people in Korea, where hepatitis B was once a very disease. popular before a vaccination campaign began in this country in 1995.

Among them, nearly 53,000 people, or 9%, have signs of getting infected with hepatitis B virus.

The follow-up results after 14 years showed that the incidence of lymph nodes increased among those with hepatitis B above - for every 100,000 people with hepatitis B, 19.4 had lymphoma, compared with 12.3 cases out of 100,000 people without hepatitis B.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the hepatitis B virus is the main cause of liver cancer.

An estimated 350 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis B virus, which causes more than 340,000 cases of liver cancer and causes 500,000 to 1.2 million deaths each year.