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Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 957-964 (December 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrc947
Opinion: SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality?
Adi F. Gazdar1, Janet S. Butel2 & Michele Carbone3 About the authors
Abstract
An increasing number of scientific reports have described evidence for a polyomavirus, simian virus 40, in a highly select group of human tumours. How did a simian virus infect humans and is the virus a passenger in tumours or is it important in their pathogenesis?
Author affiliations
- Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
- Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Centre and Department of Pathology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA.
Correspondence to: Adi F. Gazdar1 Correspondence to:Email: adi.gazdar@utsouthwestern.edu
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