TY - JOUR ID - 27760 TI - Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer on the Island of Guam JO - Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention JA - APJCP LA - en SN - 1513-7368 Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 14 IS - 5 SP - 3175 EP - 3176 KW - Guam KW - hepatitis KW - Liver cancer KW - preventive vaccination DO - N2 - Patient records from the Guam Cancer Registry were compared with patients listed in a health departmentviral hepatitis case registry and the numbers of liver cancer and viral hepatitis cases were compared by ethnicity.Hepatitis C was the form of viral hepatitis most common among liver cancer cases on Guam (63.3% of viralhepatitis-associated liver cancer cases). Since viral hepatitis is an important cause of liver cancer, studies suchas the present one may provide the information necessary to establish programs (screening of populations atrisk and infant vaccination in the case of hepatitis B, for example) that may lessen the impact of liver cancer inthe future. UR - https://journal.waocp.org/article_27760.html L1 - https://journal.waocp.org/article_27760_0c4c5314d5b40ad0b98c18649e13d777.pdf ER -