Risk Factors

Hormones, Genes, and Liver Cancer May Have Common Link in Chronic Hepatitis B

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 13th, 2001

- Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- Male sufferers of chronic hepatitis B with higher levels of testosterone and fewer repeats of a particular gene sequence could be at greater risk for developing liver cancer.

New research performed on men in Taiwan, where hepatocellular carcinoma is highly prevalent, paints a picture of genes, hormones, and liver cancer on an underlying canvas of chronic hepatitis B.

"Worldwide, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is more prevalent in men than in women, suggesting that sex hormones and/or X-chromosome-linked genes may be involved in hepatocarcinogenesis," M.W. Yu said of the theory behind research performed at the...

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