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Nature Medicine 5, 479 - 480 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8356

Viruses and Human Cancer

Harald zur Hausen1

  1. Vorsitzender des Stiftungsvorstandes Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Viruses and Human Cancer presents a general overview of all viral infections now known to be linked with human cancers. After a preliminary chapter about the general biological characteristics of viruses and cancer growth, the reader is introduced to the association between primary liver cancer and hepatitis B virus, cancer and human papillomaviruses, Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi's sarcoma and human herpesvirus-8, as well as human onco-retroviruses.

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