Study finds association between hepatitis B and pancreatic cancer

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

A new study has shown that evidence of past hepatitis B infection was twice as common in people with pancreatic cancer than in healthy controls. This study is the first to report an association between past exposure to the hepatitis B virus and pancreatic cancer, but researchers cautioned that more studies are necessary to evaluate the nature of the link...

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