Association between hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection and risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma development: A systematic review and meta-analysis

HBV/HCV infection may represent a risk factor for PAC, but the small number of available researches, involving mainly populations of Asian ethnicity and the substantial variation between different geographical areas in seroprevalence of HBV/HCV-antigens/antibodies and genotypes are limiting factors to present meta-analysis.