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Following the demonstration of the superior validity of human papillomavirus (HPV) tests in screening for cervical cancer and the arrival of highly efficacious HPV 16 and 18 vaccines, cervical cancer preventio...
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We analysed the effects of tobacco and alcohol in the aetiology of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), based on 340 cases and 2465 controls enrolled in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Czech Republic, between 1...
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No overall increased risk of lymphoma associated with antibodies to human herpesvirus-8 was found in 526 lymphomas and 599 controls (odds ratio (OR)=1.04, 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.62–1.75); significant i...
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Infections and the Etiology of Human Cancer: Epidemiological Evidence and Opportunities for Prevention
Recent estimates of the cancer burden in the world indicate that as of the year 2000 10.1 million new cases arise annually. Mortality from cancer accounts for 6.2 million cases. The 5-year prevalence, which es...
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Pentoxifylline, ciprofloxacin and prednisone failed to prevent transplant-related toxicities in bone marrow transplant recipients and were associated with an increased incidence of infectious complications
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HPV16 Antibodies in Cervical Cancer Patients and Healthy Control Women
Because papillomaviruses (PV) cannot be grown in tissue culture systems and virus-induced lesions are a very limited source of viral. antigens, in most serological. studies on human PV (HPV) either synthetic p...
