"Hepatocellular Carcinoma: From Gene to Public Health."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "Liver diseases associated with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, including hepatocellular carcinoma, account for more than 1 million deaths annually worldwide. In addition to HBV infection, other risk factors are involved in the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma and, among these, dietary exposure to the carcinogenic aflatoxins is of particular importance in certain regions of southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The relative contributions of these two risk factors and the mechanism of the interaction between them in the pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma are still...

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