relationship between typhoid carrier state and hepatobiliary cancer in Egypt: a preliminary report

Hepatobiliary cancer [especially hepatoma] is on rise all over the world as well as in Egypt. A higher incidence of such tumours was found amongst registered typhoid carriers in New York amounting to 5-9% proved by autopsies. Similar findings were reported in Norway and california. We studied the incidence of typhoid carrier status in 30 patients [21 with hepatoma, 4 with hepatic cholongiocarcinoma, and 5 with gall bladder adenocarcinoma] getting a 13.3% incidence compared to a 0% among thirty controls