Hepatitis B- and C-associated hepatocellular carcinoma in a large U.S. cancer center: Do clinicopathologic features or patient outcomes differ by the potentially causative viruses?

Authors :: Jeffrey S. Morris
Reham Abdel-Wahab
Gehan Botrus
Marc Uemura
Ernest T. Hawk
Kanwal Pratap Singh Raghav
Manal M. Hassan
Robert A. Wolff
Ahmed Kaseb
Source :: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 33:4011-4011
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2015.
Abstract: 4011 Background: Hep B virus (HBV) and hep C virus (HCV) are the main viral causes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development and are responsible for ~50% of USA cases. Because HBV is a DNA viru...

Subjects :: Cancer Research
business.industry
viruses
virus diseases
Cancer
Hepatitis B
medicine.disease
Virology
digestive system diseases
Virus
Oncology
Hepatocellular carcinoma
medicine
business

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