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Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

Save this story Save this story Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to the hospital. Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J., had spent the previous week in bed with unusual fatigue and a deep, hacking cough. His upper abdomen and back hurt persistently. He’d seen his primary-care doctor, who’d prescribed Prevacid, for acid reflux; when that didn’t help, the doctor referred him to get X-rays. Doan had planned to book a test within a few days. Three days later, at 3 A.M. , he decided to drive to

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