Cancer prevention in Africa: liver cancer

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common cancer in Africa. The risk factors are well known and avoidable in most cases (hepatitis B, hepatitis C, aflatoxin and alcohol). Vaccination against hepatitis B and the fight against aflatoxin are efficient contributions to the fight against liver cancer. The cos...

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Autor principal: Ndom, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552123
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.950
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description Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common cancer in Africa. The risk factors are well known and avoidable in most cases (hepatitis B, hepatitis C, aflatoxin and alcohol). Vaccination against hepatitis B and the fight against aflatoxin are efficient contributions to the fight against liver cancer. The costly nature of these measures in Africa is an impediment to the fight against liver cancer in Africa.
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spelling pubmed-67221102019-09-24 Cancer prevention in Africa: liver cancer Ndom, Paul Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common cancer in Africa. The risk factors are well known and avoidable in most cases (hepatitis B, hepatitis C, aflatoxin and alcohol). Vaccination against hepatitis B and the fight against aflatoxin are efficient contributions to the fight against liver cancer. The costly nature of these measures in Africa is an impediment to the fight against liver cancer in Africa. Cancer Intelligence 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6722110/ /pubmed/31552123 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.950 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552123
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