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Liver cancer risk higher for men above 50 who recover from hepatitis B, Hong Kong study warns

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Patients who recover from hepatitis B are still at risk of developing liver cancer, especially men aged above 50, according to a study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. On Monday at a press conference, researchers discussed the findings of the report, released earlier in the international medical publication the Journal of Hepatology. The study looked at data from more than 150,000 hepatitis B virus carriers collected from Hong Kong’s public hospitals from 2000 to 2016. Of these...

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