INDICE: HISTORICAL REVIEW The Early Period (1898-1911) Frustration and Successes (1912-1950) The Period from 1950 to 1965 A First Human Tumor Virus? The Difficult 1970s The Re-emergence of a Concept THE QUEST FOR CAUSALITY Infectious Agents as Direct Carcinogens Infectious Agents as Indirect Carcinogens TUMORS LINKED TO INFECTIONS - SOME GENERAL ASPECTS Tumor Types Linked to Infections Global Contributions of Infections to Human Cancer Host Interactions with Potentially Carcinogenic Infections HERPESVIRUSES AND ONCOGENESIS Alphaherpesviridae Betaherpesviridae Gammaherpesviridae PAPILLOMAVIRUSES - A MAJOR CAUSE OF HUMAN CANCERS Introduction Concept of Viral Interfering Cascades Cancers Linked to HPV Infections Role of Co-factors Preventive Vaccination Therapeutic Vaccination Therapy HEPADNAVIRUS FAMILY Hepatitis B Virus Animal Hepadnaviruses FLAVIVIRUS FAMILY Hepatitis C Virus RETROVIRUS FAMILY Human T-lymphotropic Retroviruses 1 (HTLV-1) Human T-lymphotropic Retroviruses 2 (HTLV-2) Human Endogenous Retroviruses Gibbon Ape Leukaemia Virus and Simian Sarcoma Virus OTHER VIRUS INFECTIONS POSSIBLY INVOLVED IN HUMAN CANCERS Polyomaviruses (JC, BK and SV40) HELICOBACTER, CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND CANCER Discovery, Taxonomy and Genomics Life Cycle, Specificity, and Virulence Determinants in Cancer Development Prevention of H. Pylori Induced Cancer Animal Models Virulence Determinants ofEnterohepatic Helicobacter Spp Enterohepatic Helicobacter Spp. - Are they Cocarcinogens? PARASITES AND HUMAN CANCER Schistosomiasis Infection with Liver Flukes (Opisthorchis Viverrini, O. Felineus, Clonorchis Sinensis) CANCERS WITH APOSSIBLE INFECTIOUS ETIOLOGY Leukemias and Lymphomas Human Breast Cancer Other Human Cancers Possibly Linked to Infectious Events
- ISBN: 978-3-527-32977-9
- Editorial: Wiley-VCH
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 532
- Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2010
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