Hepatitis B virus mutations may predict risk of liver cancer
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 17:42
in Health & Medicine
Certain mutations in the DNA of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) are associated with the development of liver cancer and may help predict which patients with HBV infections are at increased risk of the disease, according to a large meta-analysis in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published online July 2.
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