45 Percent of Patients with Hepatitis Liver Cancer Potentially Taxable

JAKARTA - specifically Hepatitis B and C if it is left in the long term potential to cause liver cancer. Unfortunately awareness of this disease is still lacking.

"If the disease is left in 15-20 years time can cause liver cancer. If it's just the way the liver transplant," said Chairman of the Working Group on Viral Hepatitis, Prof. Dr. Ali Sulaiman, PhD, SpPD-KGEH, FACG in Jakarta, Thursday (09/08/2011).

If you already have to undergo a liver transplant beayanya high enough. This is caused by pelaksanakannya have outside help because we can not do it alone.

"Of the 15 million people with a combined hepatitis B and hepatitis C, can be as much as 25-45 percent of liver cancer," he said.

Since the first hepatitis B and C is a concern because of a public health problem in developing countries. Hepatitis as a world health problem that comes into the priority
agenda of the World Health Organization (WHO).