Clinical cancer chemoprevention: From the hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine

Approximately 2 million new cancer cases are attributed to infectious agents each year worldwide. Vaccines for the hepatitis B virus (HBV), a risk factor of hepatocellular cancer, and human papillomavirus (HPV), a risk factor of cervical cancer, are considered major successes in clinical chemopreven...

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Main Author: Horng-Jyh Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-04-01
Series:Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1028455915000212