I have a sitting job and I have hepatitis C problem tell me how I can save of life from this disease.
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Hepatitis c is the no. 1 cause of liver cancer and liver transplants. It's brought on by a virus that you can catch if you come into contact with contaminated blood. You could get it from an unclean tattoo needle, for example. Sometimes, it spreads during sex. It can be cured. But doing so hasn't always been easy or comfortable. For decades, you needed painful shots of a medicine called interferon and a pill called ribavirin. These drugs didn't target the virus making you sick. Instead, they amped up your immune system, so you'd fight it like you do when you get sick with the flu. But the treatment didn't always remove the virus from the body. Cure rates hovered around 50%. And, people who stuck with the year-long treatment -- not all did -- had to live with chemo-like side effects. These days there's a revolution underway in hepatitis c virus (hcv) treatment. More and more people are being quickly cured by simply taking a pill, at home, for just a few weeks. Several injection-free options have been approved since 2014, and that list is growing fast.
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