Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Cases of liver cancer reduced in a younger population vaccinated for HBV
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 29th, 2009
In July 1984, a universal vaccination program was initiated among newborn children in Taiwan to prevent the hepatitis B virus infection, which can predispose to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary malignancy of the liver.
For this study, Mei-Hwei Chang, M.D., of the Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and colleagues collected data from almost...
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