Recently, during clinical treatment and consultations, I often heard patients and families and even some clinicians say, “Hepatitis C is not completely curable, and normal liver function does not require treatment.” I feel that the problem is more serious, so I am taking this platform to spread the word to everyone again. I don’t know how it is in other areas, but previously in our Xuancheng area in Anhui most medical and nursing staff were so propagated, and even a few officials from the current health administration still think so, and I can’t blame them for not understanding it. Because the hepatitis C virus was discovered in a relatively short period of time, at that time due to the lack of anti-hepatitis C virus drugs and low efficacy caused the misconception that hepatitis C is not curable; at the same time, because the symptoms of chronic hepatitis C are not obvious, basically no patients with severe hepatitis appear, the disease progresses relatively slowly, in the short term we are still difficult to detect the potential risk of this disease, thus causing the misconception that normal liver function does not require treatment. Recently, with the development of science and technology and the improvement of treatment protocols, patients who have undergone our current regular antiviral treatment have a clearance rate of about 80% of the hepatitis C virus, and, with the recent emergence of new antiviral drugs, hepatitis C patients can obtain an even higher clearance rate, so we can assume that hepatitis C, unlike hepatitis B and AIDS, is currently the only chronic disease that can be completely cured. At the same time, we have reason to believe that with the development and progress of science and technology, hepatitis B and AIDS may also be cured in the near future, and we hope that our concepts will be further updated by then. At the same time, with the passage of time, our understanding of the potential harm of hepatitis C disease is getting deeper and deeper, clinical observation found that nearly 10% of patients infected with hepatitis C virus for 20 years will progress to cirrhosis, and nearly 20% of patients for 30 years will progress to cirrhosis, while 1-4% of patients will develop primary liver cancer, with the passage of time of infection, the occurrence of such diseases will be found to be increasingly high. Some of these patients are already in cirrhosis or primary liver cancer when they have symptoms, so they have lost the opportunity to be treated and feel very sad, most of them have been infected with hepatitis C virus for 20-30 years, and most of them do not have any abnormal feeling. Therefore, it is not too much to say that the hepatitis C virus is a “silent killer”, and patients with chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus must be treated. Because of the persistence and cumulative nature of liver damage, the earlier the treatment, the less liver damage and the easier it is to return to normal; at the same time, because studies have shown that the length of hepatitis C virus infection and the degree of liver fibrosis affect the effectiveness of virus clearance, it is recommended that the earlier the treatment, the better.