Infections Causing Human Cancer – Softcover Edition
Softcover Edition
Paperback Engels 2010 9783527329779Samenvatting
Infections must be thought as one of the most important, if not the most important, risk factors for cancer development in humans. Approximately 15–20% of all cases of cancer around the world are caused by viruses. The
establishment of a causal relationship between the presence of specific infective agents and certain types of human cancer represents a key step in the development of novel therapeutic and preventive strategies.
In this book, Professor zur Hausen (Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2008) provides a thorough and comprehensive overview on carcinogenic infective agents –– viruses, bacteria, parasites and protozoons –– as well as their corresponding transforming capacities and mechanisms. The result is an invaluable and instructive reference for all oncologists, microbiologists and molecular biologists working in the area of infections and cancer.
The author was among the first scientists to reveal the cervical cancer–inducing mechanisms of human papilloma viruses and isolated HPV16 and HPV18, and, as early as 1976, published the hypothesis that wart viruses
play a role in the development of this type of cancer.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
<br /> The Early Period (1898–1911)
<br /> Frustration and Successes (1912–1950)
<br /> The Period from 1950 to 1965
<br /> A First Human Tumor Virus?
<br /> The Difficult 1970s
<br /> The Re–emergence of a Concept
<br /> THE QUEST FOR CAUSALITY
<br /> Infectious Agents as Direct Carcinogens
<br /> Infectious Agents as Indirect Carcinogens
<br /> TUMORS LINKED TO INFECTIONS –
<br /> SOME GENERAL ASPECTS
<br /> Tumor Types Linked to Infections
<br /> Global Contributions of Infections to Human Cancer
<br /> Host Interactions with Potentially Carcinogenic Infections
<br /> HERPESVIRUSES AND ONCOGENESIS
<br /> Alphaherpesviridae
<br /> Betaherpesviridae
<br /> Gammaherpesviridae
<br /> PAPILLOMAVIRUSES –
<br /> A MAJOR CAUSE OF HUMAN CANCERS
<br /> Introduction
<br /> Concept of Viral Interfering Cascades
<br /> Cancers Linked to HPV Infections
<br /> Role of Co–factors
<br /> Preventive Vaccination
<br /> Therapeutic Vaccination
<br /> Therapy
<br /> HEPADNAVIRUS FAMILY
<br /> Hepatitis B Virus
<br /> Animal Hepadnaviruses
<br /> FLAVIVIRUS FAMILY
<br /> Hepatitis C Virus
<br /> RETROVIRUS FAMILY
<br /> Human T–lymphotropic Retroviruses 1 (HTLV–1)
<br /> Human T–lymphotropic Retroviruses 2 (HTLV–2)
<br /> Human Endogenous Retroviruses
<br /> Gibbon Ape Leukaemia Virus and Simian Sarcoma Virus
<br /> OTHER VIRUS INFECTIONS POSSIBLY INVOLVED IN HUMAN CANCERS
<br /> Polyomaviruses (JC, BK and SV40)
<br /> HELICOBACTER, CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND CANCER
<br /> Discovery, Taxonomy and Genomics
<br /> Life Cycle, Specificity, and Virulence Determinants in Cancer Development
<br /> Prevention of H. Pylori Induced Cancer
<br /> Animal Models
<br /> Virulence Determinants of Enterohepatic Helicobacter Spp
<br /> Enterohepatic Helicobacter Spp. –
<br /> Are they Cocarcinogens?
<br /> PARASITES AND HUMAN CANCER
<br /> Schistosomiasis
<br /> Infection with Liver Flukes (Opisthorchis Viverrini, O. Felineus, Clonorchis Sinensis)
<br /> CANCERS WITH A POSSIBLE INFECTIOUS ETIOLOGY
<br /> Leukemias and Lymphomas
<br /> Human Breast Cancer
<br /> Other Human Cancers Possibly Linked to Infectious Events
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