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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Main Authors: Won-Mook Choi, Gi-Ae Kim, Jonggi Choi, Seungbong Han, Young-Suk Lim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Clinical Investigation 2022-05-01
Series:The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI154833