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...society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
Cancer in the liver is most often associated with exposure to hepatitis-B virus, which is now rare in the United States, but carried by an estimated 250-300 million people worldwide. It is most common in the Far East and sub-Saharan Africa...
Wands and Bellet tested the new detective method on more than 3,000 subjects, some of them carriers of hepatitis, B. others sufferers of cirrhosis or other malignant tumors of the liver. They found that only those with primary liver cell cancer showed high levels...
...said there was a danger that the test would defect high AFP levels in the blood of patients who did not have primary liver cell cancer, but instead had some other disease of the liver...
...people could get scared they have cancer, just because of a little AFP," he said, adding that this misdiagnosis is more likely in the United States, where only, 1 percent of the population carries hepatitis-B and even fewer get liver cancer...