Infection and Cancer: Global Distribution and Burden of Diseases

• Published in: Annals of global health Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 384 - 392
• Main Authors: Oh, Jin-Kyoung, Weiderpass, Elisabete
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2014; Ubiquity Press
• Subjects: burden; cancer; Clonorchiasis - epidemiology; Epstein-Barr Virus Infections - epidemiology; Helicobacter Infections - epidemiology; Hepatitis B - epidemiology; Hepatitis C - epidemiology; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HTLV-I Infections - epidemiology; Humans; infection; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - microbiology; Neoplasms - parasitology; Opisthorchiasis - epidemiology; Papillomavirus Infections - epidemiology; Schistosomiasis haematobia; Trematode Infections - epidemiology; Trematode Infections - parasitology; vaccination; Virus Diseases - epidemiology; Virus Diseases - virology; infection; cancer; burden; vaccination

Infection is one of the main risk factors for cancer. Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and disease burden of infection-related cancers were reviewed by infectious agents. Chronic infection with Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, Kaposi sarcoma herpes virus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...