Infectious agents associated cancers : epidemiology and molecular biology

"This book offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning viral, bacterial, and parasite infectious cancers. Cancer is one of the most common causes of death and diseases in human populations, and 15%-25% of human cancers in worldwide are considered to result from chronic inf...

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Other Authors Cai, Qiliang (Editor), Yuan, Zhenghong (Virologist) (Editor), Lan, Ke (Virologist) (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer, [2017]
SeriesAdvances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 1018.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811057656
9789811057649
ISSN2214-8019 ;
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : color illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Overview of infectious causes of human cancers / Qiliang Cai and Zhaenghong Yuan
  • Hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma / Youhua Xie
  • Human papillomavirus-related cancers / Yanyun Li and Congjian Xu
  • Merkel cell polyomavirus: a new DNA virus associated with human cancer / Margo MacDonald and Jianxin You
  • Current progress in EBV-associated B-cell lymphomas / Yonggang Pei, Alexandria E. Lewis, and Erle S. Robertson
  • EBV infection and glucose metabolism in nasopharyngeal carcinoma / Jun Zhang, Lin Jia, Chi Man Tsang, and Sai Wah Tsao
  • Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus : epidemiology and molecular biology / Shasha Li, Lei Bai, Jiazhen Dong, Rui Sun, and Ke Lan
  • Hepatitis C virus-associated cancers / Zhigang Yi and Zhenghong Yuan
  • Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection and adult T-cell leukemia / Chi-Ping Chan, Kin-Hang Kok, and Dong-Yan Jin
  • Malignancies in HIV-infected and AIDS patients / Yongjia Ji and Hongzhou LU
  • Bacterial infection and associated cancers / Caixia Zhu, Yuyan Wang, Cankun Cai, and Qiliang Cai
  • Parasite-associated cancers (blood flukes/liver flukes) / Meng Feng and Xunjia Cheng
  • Prion protein family contributes to tumorigenesis via multiple pathways / Xiaowen Yang, Zhijun Cheng, Lihua Zhang, Guiru Wu, Run Shi, Zhenxing Gao, and Chaoyang Li
  • Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 : a small animal model for gammaherpesvirus-associated diseases / Sihan Dong, J. Craig Forrest, and Xiaozhen Liang
  • Infection of KSHV and interaction with HIV : the bad romance / Jie Qin and Chun Lu
  • Interplay between microenvironmental abnormalities and infectious agents in tumorigenesis / Qing Zhu, Feng Gu, Caixia Zhu, Yuyan Wang, Fang Wei, and Qiliang Cai.