Viruses and liver cancer /

• Other Authors: Tabor, Edward
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Perspectives in medical virology ; v. 6.
• Subjects: Liver > Cancer.; Hepatitis viruses.; Virus de l'hépatite.; Foie > Cancer.; Tumeurs du foie > étiologie.; Hépatites virales humaines > complications.; Virus d'hépatites.; Viren; Leberkrebs; Virussjukdomar.; Cancer.; Liver Neoplasms > etiology.; Hepatitis, Viral, Human > complications.; Viruses.; Humans.; Electronic books.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most important complications of chronic viral hepatitis. It usually results in a fatal outcome if not discovered in its earliest stages. Its close association with the hepatitis B and C viruses makes it one of the first human cancers for which there is st...