Hepatitis B and C viruses infection, lifestyle and genetic polymorphisms as risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma in Haimen, China.

None of these was statistically significant. DISCUSSION According to a recent investigation, the age-adjusted death rate of HCC, along with lung cancer, is still showing an increasing trend in both rural and urban areas of main- land China.18) After adjustment for the 1985 world popula- tion, the mortality rate of HCC in mainland China was 33.7 for men and 12.3 for women (per 100 000); both ranked top in the world.19) In China, the mortality rate of HCC is highest in Jiangsu province, especially the Haimen Table III.

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