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Hepatitis B virus and hepatocellular carcinoma
2001-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major global cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Individuals who are chronic carriers have a greater than 100‐fold increased relative risk of developing the tumour. Several mechanisms of HBV‐induced HCC have been proposed. Integration of HBV DNA into the genome of hepatocytes occurs commonly, although integration at cellular sites that are important for regulatio...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 69d6258d-9752-5b2a-8ee9-13874f1c7e89
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2001.iep178.x
