Hepatocellular carcinoma after direct-acting antiviral therapy for chronic HCV infection: Is it a real risk?

The newer oral treatments for chronic hepatitis C virus infection are one of the greatest revolutions in modern medicine. These drugs promise to eradicate the infection, showing high cure rates even in difficult to treat populations with very few side effects. Nevertheless, some cases of recurrence and de novo hepatocellular carcinoma after treatment with these drugs have been reported. We describe two cases of patients treated with direct-acting antiviral agents that developed hepatocarcinoma during follow-up post-treatment. Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, HCV infection, Direct-acting antiviral therap