Microbes and malignancy : infection as a cause of human cancers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Parsonnet, Julie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Neoplasms > etiology. Infection > complications. Infection > microbiology. Infection > parasitology. Neoplastic Processes.

Table of Contents:

1. Mechanisms of infection-induced malignancy
Chronic host-parasite interactions / David A. Relman
Chronic inflammation, mutation, and cancer / Stephan Christen ... [et al.]
Infection, cell proliferation, and malignancy / Samuel M. Cohen
Viral oncogenesis / Harald Zur Hausen
Immunosuppression, infection, and cancer / Judith Karp and William A. Blattner
2. Infections and cancer: viruses
Human papillomaviruses and squamous-cell carcinomas / Peter M. Howley and Karl Münger.
Epstein-Barr virus, lymphoproliferative diseases, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma / Nancy Raab-Traub
KSHV, Kaposi's sarcoma, and related lymphoproliferative disorders / Yuan Chang
Hepatitis B virus and hepatocellular carcinoma / William S. Robinson
Hepatitis C virus and hepatocellular carcinoma / Raymond T. Chung and T. Jake Liang
Human C-type oncoviruses and T-Cell leukemia/lymphoma / Mitsuaki Yoshida
3. Infections and cancer: parasites and bacteria.
Schistosomiasis, bladder and colon cancer / Miriam Rosin and Lorne J. Hofseth
Liver flukes and biliary cancer / Witaya Thamavit, Tomoyuki Shirai, and Nobuyuki Ito
Helicobacter pylori and gastric adenocarcinoma / Julie Parsonnet
Helicobacter pylori: a model for extranodal lymphoma / Peter G. Isaacson
Bacterial infection and colon cancer / David B. Schauer.