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Part of the book series: Infectious Disease (ID)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Background
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Herpesviruses
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Retroviruses
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Papillomaviruses
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Reviews
"The book covers all at present known types of human oncogenic infections,... This publication represents an outstanding work devoted to the current state-of-the-art of the role of viruses, bacteria, and parasites in cancer development. It gives summary of major viruses and bacteria involved in different ways in tumor induction and a comprehensive coverage of all neoplasms at present known to be caused by infectious agents. The book will prove helpful to keep us up-to-date with achievements in promising filed of targeted new cancer therapeutical and vaccines. It will be of interest both to clinical oncologist to specialists to infectious diseases and to laboratory and clinical cancer researchers." -Neoplasma
"The overall aim of this book is to review neoplasms in which certain viruses, bacteria and parasites play critical roles, anticipating that they will be the likely targets for drugs and vaccines...The book will be a valuable resource for anyone wishing to know more about the role of persistent or chronically active infection in a complex disease such as cancer...and is appropriate for a diverse group, including students of medicine, research scientists and practicing physicians and should be available in all medical libraries. It should also encourage further research in the promising field of anticancer therapy." -Folia Microbiologica
"The influence of chronic infection and inflammation on oncogenesis is also widely discussed. The volume if a treasure for reading....The book is highly recommended to all microbiologists and clinicians with an interest in aspects of the molecular pathogenesis and rational therapy of cancer." -Microbiology Today
"...the book contains timely and important information on the pathogenesis of cancer of infectious origin on the opportunities available for potentially successful intervention....the chapters are extremely well written, notably the overview chapters for retroviruses and papillomaviruses, the chapters on gastric adenocarcinoma and gall bladder cancer, and the insightful chapter on childhood leukemia." -British Medical Journal
"...this book was an exceedingly good read. A comprehensive range of associations between human cancers and infectious agents is covered and the reader is left with a very good idea of the contribution of infection to ...The book is very up-to-date and there is extensive referencing useful for further reading....I feel that this is an excellent book. For workers in the virus-cancer field, it provides a useful and comprehensive overview of this subject area that is stimulating and thought provoking. For others, outside the field, it provides an extremely good reference book from which current understanding of the infectious causation of cancer can be readily assimilated." - Hematologic Oncology
"Students, teachers, experts, and non experts will benefit from reading this book and having it close at hand for frequent reference." - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
"Infectious Causes of Cancer is intended as an introduction to infectious disease oncology for practitioners, but is also an excellent and valuable reference work of general interest to oncologists, microbiologists, and infectious disease specialists, and should be included in any medical biology or oncology library." -ASM News
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Causes of Cancer
Book Subtitle: Targets for Intervention
Editors: James J. Goedert
Series Title: Infectious Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-024-7
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-772-4Published: 01 April 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-9621-5Published: 24 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-024-7Published: 01 April 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 498
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Infectious Diseases