HBsAg is the marker of infection with HBV most often measured in epideffiological

Reports of epidemiological studies of liver cancer relevant to these monographs have employed a variety of terms to describe this disease, for example, lIver cancer, primary liver cancer, primary hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. We chose to use only the term hepatoceIIular carcinoma (HCC) in describing these studies. This choice was made because most of the studies have specified primary cancer of the liver or HCC, and the