Problems of Causality in MedicineThe Case of Viruses and Tumors – Part 2. Viruses and Human Malignant Tumors
Authors:
V. Vonka
Authors‘ workplace:
Ústav hematologie a krevní transfuze, Praha
Published in:
Čas. Lék. čes. 2004; : 485-489
Category:
Overview
A special case in contemporary etiological studies is definition of the role of viruses in the pathogenesis of humancancer. Virus–associated cancer develops only in a small minority of infected subjects, which implies that, if thevirus does play a role in the pathogenesis of the malignancy, other factors must be also involved. The authorsummarises the general properties of human tumour viruses, reviews the development of causal thinking inmicrobiology and proposes guidelines that might help to determine the role of viruses in human cancer.
Key words:
role of viruses, malignant tumors.
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