Antihistamines used for relief of allergies and hay fever halved the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) in people with viral hepatitis during a ten-year follow-up period, a review of people with viral hepatitis in Taiwan has concluded.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that greater use of H-1 antihistamines – the type used for allergy relief – reduced the risk of liver cancer by 60% in people with hepatitis B who used them on at least 120 days in the follow-up period.
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