Clinical reports show that 85 percent of the victims of cancer or cirrhosis of the liver are carriers of hepatitis B (Taiwan has 3 million carriers at present) and that liver cancer and cirrhosis are causally related.
根據衛生署臨床的病理研究報告指出：肝癌、肝硬化病患中，百分之八十五是 B 型肝炎帶原者（目前台灣就有三百萬名帶原者）；而肝癌與肝硬化也有直接因果關係。