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Hepatitis C ups lymphoma risk

Hepatitis C ups lymphoma risk

(USA Today) UPDATED 2007-05-09

A new study suggests that people infected with the hepatitis C virus may be 20 percent to 30 percent more likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. People with the virus are also three times as likely to develop a rare lymphoma called Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. Read full story >

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