It’s well established that hepatitis B virus can cause liver cancer. Scientists in Taiwan now report that a certain kind of hepatitis B is much more likely than others to lead to cancer and that large amounts of any type of the virus correlate with high cancer risk.
The researchers obtained blood samples from 4,841 men diagnosed with hepatitis B but not yet treated for the condition.
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