National Cancer Institute
September 22, 2009 • Volume 6 / Number 18
Few people associate infection with cancer, but close to one-fifth of all cancers in the world are caused by infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and other microbes. In developing countries, the number is higher—about one in four—while in industrialized countries, such as the United States, it is about one in 12.
Infectious agents that can cause cancer are extremely common, infecting millions...
Newswise — La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology researchers studying an enzyme believed to play a role in allergy onset, instead have discovered its previously unknown role as a tumor suppressor that may be important in myeloproliferative diseases and some types of lymphoma and leukemia. Myeloproliferative diseases are a group of disorders characterized by an overproduction of blood cells by the bone marrow and include chronic myeloid...
Scientists Discovered A New Molecular Mechanism Linking Viral Infection To Cancer Susceptibility
Article Date: 09 Apr 2009 - 3:00 PDT
Portuguese scientists discovered a new molecular mechanism that allows gamma herpes viruses to chronically infect patients and helps to explain why these patients present an abnormally high incidence of the lymphocyte (or white blood cell) cancer lymphoma, particularly when their immune system is compromised.
British scientists claim to have uncovered the dormant virus that triggers a new type of cancer increasingly found in youngsters.
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), found in nine out of ten UK adults, greatly increases the chances of developing cancer if a 'genetic accident' of the immune system takes place.
Researchers, publishing their findings in PLoS Pathogens, said the cancer in question was Burkitt's lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin's...
