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Hepatitis C is now curable in weeks. Testing and treating where it is concentrated, and keeping those with scarring in surveillance afterwards, would cut liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is now curable in weeks, so this idea introduces opt-out testing and immediate direct-acting antiviral treatment in prisons and needle services, then automatically enrols cured patients with F3 or F4 fibrosis into liver cancer surveillance, blood-based where possible. Cure does not remove hepatocellular carcinoma risk in advanced fibrosis, and while elimination programmes in Egypt, Georgia and Australia show feasibility, the surveillance step is usually missing. The aim is fewer and earlier-stage liver cancers among people who inject drugs. The test is a regional programme with registry evaluation. Being tested at scale, it addresses the bottlenecks Prevention we already have is not deployed and Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.