What role is there for the assessment of hepatitis B virus genotype as it pertains to pharmacologic therapy and HCC screening?

We always get genotype before treatment of HBV. It supplies a lot of valuable information.

A-G not so much but resistance testing is important in case they took Chinese herbs with lamivudine in them unknowingly. What is really important though for risk of HCC is the presence of the Basal Core Promote...