Abstract

SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, Mercedes. Hepatitis B vaccine, a challenge to liver cancer. Vaccimonitor [online]. 2000, vol.9, n.2, pp. 19-22. ISSN 1025-0298.

In geographical regions where the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has high prevalence, liver cancer is the most common neoplasm. Infection control is becoming more complex because of the considerable amount of asymptomatic carriers that exist in the world now. Nevertheless, with the discovery and production of a vaccine against hepatitis B virus and its subsequent inclusion in the Expanded Program for Immunization, this situation could change, by reducing the number of new cases and carriers in the future. This should in consequence reduce the mortality by virus-caused liver carcinoma.

Keywords : Hepatitis B; epidemiology; vaccine; liver cancer.

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