Gordon, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, studied 67,063 individual tested for HCV between 1997 and 2006 at Henry Ford Hospital and who were followed up for the
development of RCC until April 2008.
Of these subjects, 3,047 (4.6%) were HCV positive. RCC was diagnosed in 17 (0.6%) of these subjects compared with 177 (0.3%) of the 64,006 HCV-negative individuals.