Research Article
Quantification of Pregenomic RNA and Covalently Closed Circular DNA in Hepatitis B Virus-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Table 3
Detection of HBV-DNA in 24 HCC patients with HBsAg-negative and HBcAb-positive patients.
| | Cancerous tissue | Noncancerous tissue | value |
| S region | 9 (38%) | 17 (71%) | 0.020 | Precore-core region | 4 (17%) | 4 (17%) | NS | Polymerase region | 14 (58%) | 10 (42%) | NS | X region | 12 (50%) | 21 (88%) | 0.005 | Positive in ≥2 regions | 10 (42%) | 20 (83%) | 0.003 |
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NS: not significant.
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