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Fig. 5.39 A woman in the Gambia preparing food<br />

which is potentially contaminated by aflatoxin. The<br />

combination of aflatoxin ingestion and chronic<br />

hepatitis B poses a high risk of hepatocellular carcinoma<br />

(Chronic infections, p56).<br />

Pathology and genetics<br />

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a malignant<br />

epithelial tumour derived from hepatocytes,<br />

and thus resembles normal liver<br />

both structurally and cytologically. Small<br />

early-stage hepatocellular carcinomas (

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