| Literature DB >> 8695372 |
J M Yuan1, S Govindarajan, B E Henderson, M C Yu.
Abstract
Southern Guangxi, China has one of the highest incidences of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the world. Serum samples collected from subjects of an earlier case-control study (39 cases, 41 controls) and from a random sampling of a residential male cohort (n = 100) were tested for antibodies for the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) using ELISA version 2.0 with confirmation by RIBA version 2.0. Only one of 141 (0.7%, upper 95% confidence limit, 3.2%) control subjects and none of 39 (upper 95% confidence limit, 6.07%) HCC cases tested positive for anti-HCV. Our results indicate that hepatitis C infection is not an important environmental determinant of HCC risk in this hyperendemic region.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8695372 PMCID: PMC2074655 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.389
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640