Prevention of primary liver cancer by immunization.
Primary liver cancer is one of the ten most common cancers of man and approximately 80% of cases are associated etiologically with infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), often early in life. Infection with HBV is now preventable by active immunization, so that large-scale immunization programs will prevent the initial infection and the development of persistent infection and the carrier state, the most important risk factor in hepatocarcinogenesis.
Zuckerman
A J
AJ
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, U.K.
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*