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A handful of Canadian patients with hepatitis C have been removed from liver transplant waiting lists thanks to expensive new drug treatments that have stopped the potentially deadly disease from spreading.
Around 20 patients have been removed from Canada’s liver transplant waiting lists, according to surveys collected by Dr. Paul Marotta, a liver specialist at London Health Sciences Centre.
Doctors say the phenomenon is due to new hepatitis C-fighting medications such as Harvoni and Sovaldi, which hit the market a few years ago and appear to destroy the disease.
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