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SUBMITTER: Yang MH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7072678 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Ming-Hui MH Chen Marcelo M Mo Hsiao-Hsuan HH Tsai Wan-Chi WC Chang Yu-Chi YC Chang Chin-Chuan CC Chen Ko-Chin KC Wu Hsin-Yi HY Yuan Cheng-Hui CH Lee Che-Hsin CH Chen Yi-Ming Arthur YA Tyan Yu-Chang YC
Cancers 20200210 2
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the ten most commonly diagnosed cancers and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death. Patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are prone to developing chronic liver diseases (i.e., fibrosis and cirrhosis), and the HBV X antigen plays an important role in the development of HCC. The difficulty in detecting HCC at the early stages is one of the main reasons that the death rate approximates the incidence rate. The regulators controlling the dow ...[more]