Men-only hepatitis B mutation explains higher cancer rates
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers has identified a novel mutation in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Korea that appears only in men and could help explain why HBV-infected men are roughly five times more likely than HBV-infected women to develop liver cancer. Although some women do progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer, the mutation is absent in HBV in women.