Abstract
Peers and Linsell (1973) demonstrated a significant association between the incidence of primary liver cancer and ingested aflatoxin in a study in the Muranga district of Kenya. A study of hepatitis B antigen in the same district showed no significant differences between the low altitude area, with a relatively high incidence of primary liver cancer, and the high altitude area with a lower incidence of the tumour. Current evidence is more in favour of aflatoxin playing an important role in the aetiology of primary liver cancer but hepatitis B antigen may play an ancillary role.
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Bagshawe, A., Gacengi, D., Cameron, C. et al. Hepatitis Bs antigen and liver cancer: A population based study in Kenya. Br J Cancer 31, 581–584 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1975.99
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