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 | , , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Singapore :
Springer,
[2017]
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| Series | Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;
v. 1018. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9789811057656 9789811057649 |
| ISSN | 2214-8019 ; |
| Physical Description | 1 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.