Synonyms for hepatitis C
hep·atitis c

Princeton's WordNet

1. hepatitis Cnoun

   a viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products)

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1. • Viral Hepatitis

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1. Carolyn Wester:

   Otherwise, people often fall out of care, or because hepatitis C can remain asymptomatic for years, people forget or are unaware of their diagnosis, and what ends up happening is, they don't get linked to the treatment that they need, and then they show up much later in the health system with advanced disease and complications that are much harder and much more costly to treat. In addition, we've lost years of opportunity to prevent transmission.

2. Jamie Favaro:

   I'm very fearful that we're going to see an HIV spike and a Hepatitis C spike, as well as an overdose spike in areas where the needle exchange programs have shut down.

3. Alexander Millman:

   Hepatitis C infection can last a lifetime and lead to serious liver problems, including cirrhosis, which is scarring of the liver, liver cancer, or death, hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation in the United States.

4. Peter Reese:

   Beyond trials, we have to find a way to pay for it through insurance, the single biggest barrier is being able to guarantee that the hepatitis C can be treated, even before the patients sign up for the program. I think that’s the big mountain ahead.

5. Carolyn Wester:

   The only way to end the hepatitis C epidemic is to treat more, and one of the key multilevel strategies is decreasing the price of hepatitis C meds. That has to be part of the strategy aimed at eradicating hepatitis C.