Increasing on-treatment hepatocellular carcinoma risk with decreasing baseline viral load in HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B
BACKGROUND It is unclear whether the level of serum hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA at baseline affects the on-treatment risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in hepatitis B e antigen–positive (HBeAg-positive), noncirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).METHODS We conducted a multicenter coho...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Clinical Investigation
2022-05-01
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Series: | The Journal of Clinical Investigation |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI154833 |