Review: Bacteria and tumours, causative agents or opportunistic inhabitants?

April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Joanne Cummins and Mark Tangney Infectious Agents and Cancer 2013, 8:11 doi:10.1186/1750-9378-8-11 Published: 28 March 2013 Abstract (provisional)  Associations between different bacteria and various tumours have been reported in patients for decades. Studies involving characterisation of bacteria within tumour tissues have traditionally been in the context of tumourigenesis as a result of bacterial presence within healthy tissues, and in general, [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: Antidepressants and Breast, Ovarian Cancer Link Suggested

August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Women’s Media Center By Dr. Sharon Ufberg August 1, 2011 Authored by Lisa Cosgrove of the Harvard Center for Ethics, a recent statistical analysis of studies assessing the relationship between breast and ovarian cancer and antidepressant drug use finds possible link. Are you one of the thousands of women currently taking antidepressants? A recent [...]

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Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Multiorgan Syndrome Proves Rapidly Fatal

August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Oncology Stats Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Aug 4, B Jancin The skin may hold the key to differentiating classic pemphigus from the heterogenous autoimmune syndrome known as paraneoplastic autoimmune multiorgan syndrome. It is a distinction of critical prognostic importance, because paraneoplastic autoimmune multiorgan syndrome (PAMS) typically is rapidly fatal, according to Dr. Sergei A. [...]

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Skin cancer vaccine hope

July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Herald Sun Australia Suellen HindeFrom: Sunday Herald Sun July 31, 2011 12:00AM CANCER expert Prof Ian Frazer is on the verge of a major breakthrough in skin cancer – he hopes to develop a vaccine within a year. The former Australian of the Year and creator of the world’s first cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has [...]

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Vacuna VPH: Gardasil de Merck es la veradera enfermedad, y no el VPH

July 27, 2011 By 3 Comments

BWN Patagonia July 22, 2011 Especial desde EEEUU por Leslie Carol Botha (*): Profesionales de marketing muy bien entrenados, financiados por laboratorios Merck, lo hicieron de nuevo – capturando mentirosamente la atención de padres y niñas de todo el país – mediante campañas masivas que etiquetan al VPH como una enfermedad peligrosa. Una interminable serie [...]

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[Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in Bulgarian women with atypical cervical lesions examined by colposcopy].

July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Pub Med.gov Akush Ginekol (Sofiia). 2010;49(4):25-31. [Article in Bulgarian] Kovachev S, Nacheva A. Abstract INTRODUCTION: For the first time three studies describing human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype distribution in Bulgaria was presented at 15th National Conference of Oncogynecology (22-25.04.2010; V. Turnovo). Such studies are needed to predict how HPV vaccination and HPV-based screening will influence cervical [...]

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HPV positive bronchopulmonary carcinomas in women with previous high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN III)

June 24, 2011 By

Hennig EM, Suo Z, Karlsen F, Holm R, Thoresen S, Nesland JM. Source:  Department of Pathology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital and Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oslo, Montebello. Abstract: A significant higher incidence of some cancers, especially lung cancer, has been found in women with previous HPV-related (human papillomavirus) urogenital and anal neoplasias than [...]

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Detection of HPV 16 and 18 DNA in the blood of patients with cervical cancer

June 23, 2011 By

Kay P, Allan B, Denny L, Hoffman M, Williamson AL. Source:  Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. Abstract: Persistent infection of the uterine cervix with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) is causally associated with cancer of the cervix. A few studies have reported the presence of [...]

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Beyond human papillomavirus: the cervix, exogenous secondary factors, and the development of cervical precancer and cancer.

May 28, 2011 By

Castle PE. SourceDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA. castlep@mail.nih.gov Abstract Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the necessary but probably not sufficient cause of cervical precancer and cancer. Secondary exogenous and endogenous factors, HPV cofactors, may contribute to the probability of a cancer-associated (oncogenic) HPV infection progressing to cervical precancer and [...]

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Berberine modulates AP-1 activity to suppress HPV transcription and downstream signaling to induce growth arrest and apoptosis in cervical cancer cells

April 16, 2011 By

Sutapa Mahata, Alok C. Bharti, Shirish Shukla, Abhishek Tyagi, Syed A. Husain and Bhudev C. Das Abstract (provisional) Background Specific types of high risk Human papillomaviruses (HR-HPVs) particularly, HPV types 16 and 18 cause cervical cancer and while the two recently developed vaccines against these HPV types are prophylactic in nature, therapeutic options for treatment [...]

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