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Hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis C: from bench to bedside.
Seminars in immunopathology - 1 Jan 2013
Aghemo Alessio, Colombo Massimo
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer in men and seventh in women, accounting for 7 % of all cancers, and the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Nearly 90 to 95 % of all HCC occur in the context of known and often preventable risk factors, such as chronic viral hepatitis, alcohol abuse, and metabolic disorders. Although several experimental lines of research support a direct...
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