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Evidence of lesions from Epstein-Barr virus infection in human breast cancer genomes
2024-06-26
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects essentially all humans and provides no benefit. EBV can cause nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC), Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL), and perhaps breast cancer. Breast tissues from patients with breast cancer are more likely to be EBV-positive than tissues from healthy controls. However, EBV is not a proven cause of breast cancer because the tissues are not consistently EBV-positive. If EBV causes b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3d04d93b-ce64-56a2-a04a-adb897320890
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.06.24.24309410
