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What is Hepatitis C?
What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a liver disease that makes the liver swell and stop functioning properly.
You need a healthy liver because the liver has many functions to keep you alive. The liver fights infections and stops bleeding, removes drugs and other toxic substances from the bloodstream and also stores energy for use when necessary.
What causes hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is caused by a virus. A virus is a germ that causes disease. (For example, influenza is caused by a virus). People can transmit the virus to others. That causes hepatitis C virus is called hepatitis C.
How can I get hepatitis C?
You can get hepatitis C by sharing needles to inject drugs. Hepatitis C is spread through contact with the blood of an infected person.
You can get hepatitis C by:
- Receiving a transfusion of contaminated blood.
- Sharing needles to inject drugs.
- Pricked with a needle contaminated with infected blood (hospital staff can get hepatitis C this way).
- Getting a tattoo or piercing in a body part with dirty tools that were used with others. Read the rest of this entry »
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Malignant liver tumor
Liver cancer may be primary or secondary (metastasis from other cancers).
It is a malignant tumor developed at the expense either of liver cells (hepatocellular carcinoma) or bile duct cells (cholangiocarcinoma) or blood vessels (angiosarcoma).
The primary liver cancer was rare in Europe and America, but its frequency is increasing rapidly (5000 cases per year in France) because of the hepatitis C epidemic and is more common in Africa and Asia.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma, or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver tumors, and it occurs in 20% of a healthy liver, liver more frequently diagnosed with a pre-existing liver disease (cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis) . Unlike Europe, where alcoholic cirrhosis is the main cause of this type of tumor, in the countries of Africa and Asia, HCC is often linked to hepatitis B and C, sometimes to the pollution of food, including aflatoxin. Read the rest of this entry »
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