Hepatitis B virus and primary liver cancer

ABSTRACT

Incidence of primitive liver cancer has the regularly increased in Asia as well as in Vietnam. Hepatitis B virus is proved as the most important causative factor by many epidemiological and molecular studies. In the pathogenesis, HBV acts via two mechanisms. The hepatitis B vaccination efforts, for all the new born babies and as well as for all the people HbsAg negative, is very necessary and urgent to reduce the incidence of PCL in the next decades