Hepatitis-C Infection Incidence Among the non-Hodgkin’s B-cell Lymphoma Patients in the Northeast of Iran

Seyed Amir  Aledavood; Mohammad Reza Ghavam-Nasir; Kamran Ghaffarzadegan; Hamid Reza Raziee; Golnaz Saboori; Kazem Anvari; Samira Mohtashami; Mitra Ahadi; Bahram Memar

International Journal of Cancer Management

The Official Journal of Cancer Research Center (CRC), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

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Hepatitis-C Infection Incidence Among the non-Hodgkin’s B-cell Lymphoma Patients in the Northeast of Iran

Authors:

Seyed Amir Aledavood¹,

Mohammad Reza Ghavam-Nasir¹,

Kamran Ghaffarzadegan¹,

Hamid Reza Raziee¹,

Golnaz Saboori²,

Kazem Anvari¹,

Samira Mohtashami¹,

Mitra Ahadi¹,

Bahram Memar^1,*

1Dept. of Radiation oncology, Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

2Dept. of Radiation oncology, Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Andorra

International Journal of Cancer Management:Vol. 7, issue 3; e80544

Published online:Sep 30, 2014

Article type:Research Article

Received:Apr 16, 2014

Accepted:Jun 22, 2014

How to Cite:Seyed Amir AledavoodMohammad Reza Ghavam-NasirKamran GhaffarzadeganHamid Reza RazieeGolnaz SabooriKazem AnvariSamira MohtashamiMitra AhadiBahram Memaret al.Hepatitis-C Infection Incidence Among the non-Hodgkin’s B-cell Lymphoma Patients in the Northeast of Iran.7(3):e80544.

Abstract

Background: Various infectious agents like Ebstein Barr Virus (EBV), HTLV-1 and Helicobacter pylori have known as etiologic factors in different sub-types of lymphoma. Although Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has not only been important for its hepatotropism and hepatitis development, but also in recent years its association with some forms of non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), especially B cell NHL, has reported. In some countries, the rate of B cell NHL development in HCV infected patients was four times more than general population, and then association between HCV infection and B-NHL has proposed in many studies.

Methods: To assess this relationship in our geographic region, in a descriptive study; we have evaluated patients with B-NHL in an oncology center in northeast of Iran for HCV infection.

Results: Out of 128 B-NHL patients, HCV Antibody test (with third generation ELISA method) was positive in only one patient, which confirmed with Nested PCR technique. Then the frequency of HCV infection in our patients was 0.7%.

Conclusion: Respecting to the incidence of HCV infection in general population in Iran, which is between 0.5-1%, we couldn’t show higher prevalence of HCV infection in NHL patients than general population, and hence couldn’t confirm relation between HCV infection and B-NHL in our region.

Keywords

Hepatitis C

non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

B-cell

Epidemiology

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