About this policy
This policy presents information about liver cancer including evidence-based strategies to prevent primary liver cancer (cancer that originates in the liver). It will be updated as significant new literature is published or if there are important changes in the policy environment.
The chapter was updated in July 2019. It has been reviewed internally by the Screening and Immunisation Committee of Cancer Council Australia and externally reviewed by Professor Benjamin Cowie, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Physician, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatitis B, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, and Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne; and Associate Professor Mark Danta, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Faculty of Medicine UNSW and St Vincent's Clinical School. It has been approved by Cancer Council's principal Public Health Committee.
Contact: cancercontrolpolicy@cancer.org.au
