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Vaccination against a hit-and-run viral cancer.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 2010
Stevenson Philip G, May Janet S, Connor Viv, Efstathiou Stacey
Abstract excerpt
Cancers with viral aetiologies can potentially be prevented by antiviral vaccines. Therefore, it is important to understand how viral infections and cancers might be linked. Some cancers frequently carry gammaherpesvirus genomes. However, they generally express the same viral genes as non-transformed cells, and differ mainly in also carrying oncogenic host mutations. Infection, therefore, seems to play a...
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