Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are highly infectious liver diseases that can lead to liver cancer and death. World-wide, there are approximately 350 million long term carriers of the hepatitis B virus and an estimated 170 million carriers of the hepatitis C virus. Primary liver cancer is the most common cancer in the world.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of primary liver cancer.
Although in the U.S. primary liver cancer accounts for less than one percent of all cancers, in territories such as Asia it accounts for up to 50 percent of cancer cases. Chronic carriers of the hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus are at substantially increased risk to develop hepatocellular carcinoma. Please contact us with any comments, problems or bugs. Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved.