{"id":1575,"date":"2019-07-24T00:47:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2019-07-10T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:48:25","slug":"hepatitis-b-and-cancer-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis B and Cancer Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zSDXb8PNrGk\/WPOGzAqFRzI\/AAAAAAAAFaQ\/1KbFI2_m8bkDyGBaggJFTTlh0TMt-luXwCPcBGAYYCw\/s320\/IMG_1648.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can cause liver cancer, and prevention is the absolute best strategy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hepatitis B that has become a chronic infection can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main way to prevent Hepatitis B is through vaccination which is given at Birth to children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We screen women in pregnancy for Hepatitis B, and in many places women are also screened for Hepatitis C in pregnancy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no vaccination for Hepatitis C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find out a sexual partner has Hepatitis of any kind you should also be screened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who have used injection drugs should be screened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been found on blood work to have elevated liver tests, you should be screened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not been vaccinated against Hepatitis B and you are traveling to a country with high rates of Hepatitis B you should be tested<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been established to have Hepatitis B you can get treated by an anti-viral agent so that you don&#8217;t contract chronic disease which is the type of Hepatitis infection that causes liver cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come in to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthpractice.com\/\">Women&#8217;s Health Practice<\/a>&nbsp;to discuss your need for screening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can cause liver cancer, and prevention is the absolute best strategy Hepatitis B that has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-physiology","tag-cancer-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}