Vaccines have an enormous role in preventing cancers caused by viruses. 💉 engineering
However, in people who are not able to fight off the infection, long-term infections of these viruses often cause extensive liver damage.
These people are at risk of developing a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma because the body’s attempts to repair the damaged liver tissue increase the chance of a cancer-related mutation. The viruses themselves do not teach the liver cells to become immortal or transform themselves, the way the other five oncogenic viruses do to the cells they target.
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