{Blank} is a type of cancer known to be caused by a virus. \\ a) Cervical cancer \\ b) Melanoma \\ c) Lung cancer \\ d) Breast cancer All of the following cancers have an infectious cause except: a. cervical cancer b. stomach cancer c. breast ...
Mounting evidence indicates that prostate cancer is an infectious disease caused by a recently identified virus. It will be some time before researchers can definitively prove whether the virus causes prostate cancer. And even more time to develop a successful vaccine if it does. But the National ...
University of Southern California researchers have confirmed for the first time cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus present in most people is a cause of salivary gland cancers and could possibly be responsible for other types of cancer malignancies. The findings, published online in the journal...
"Once your pro-viral load is high, you're at a high risk of poor health." Researchers say leukaemia caused by the virus could be "rapidly fatal." The Baker Institute team has been inspecting vials of blood infected with the ancient virus at their laboratory in the NT city of Alice Spri...
[解析] 根据文章第一段第一句“Despite the fact that today virus are known to cause cancer in animals and in plants,there exists a great reluctance to accept viruses as being of importance in human cancer.”可知,尽管人们都知道病毒可以在动物和植物中引发癌症,却仍不愿意相信 病毒对于人类癌症也有着...
ofdiseasecaused by infectious agents, including humanpapillomavirus(HPV), which can give rise tocervical cancer, andhepatitis Band C viruses, which can causeliver cancer. Vaccines that have been developed against papillomaviruses and hepatitis Bvirusare helping to control the rates of associated cancers...
Smoking alone is estimated to have caused 21% of deaths from cancer worldwide. Alcohol use and low fruit and vegetable intake caused another 5% each. Smoking was responsible for a higher fraction of deaths from cancer in high-income countries (29%) than in low-and-middle-income regions (18...
Cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus; it begins in the cervix which is the lower part of the uterus. Here there is an uncontrolled growth of the cells which displaces normal healthy tissue causing abnormal intermenstrual/post-coital bleeding and discharge. Ultimately it spreads to...
Explanations that are frequently given for what cancer is or is caused by include: a fungus, a bacterial infection, a virus or viruses, parasites low oxygen acidic pH and emotional stress, and/or unresolved emotional issues While these things may indeedcontributeto cancer, none of them accurately...
Dr Anisha Patel:Did you know that one in ten cases of lung cancer are caused by air pollution? Dr Sam Godfrey:Obviously, the majority of them come from smoking, which is sort of very direct air pollution directly into your lungs. But the way it works is tiny molecules in the air float...