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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(22):1852-1853; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.22.1852-a
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 22, 1852-1853, November 15, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention

J. Goedert, ed. Totowa (NJ): Humana Press, 2000. 498 pp., illus., $110. ISBN 0-896-03772-X

W. Thomas London

Correspondence to: W. Thomas London, M.D., Division of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Ave., Rm. R206, Philadelphia, PA 19111 (e-mail: WT_London@fccc.edu).

It has taken a long time, but the scientific community now accepts that infectious agents are causally associated with a variety of human cancers. For many years, there was resistance to this fact. Currently, it is estimated that at least 15% of all incident cancers worldwide are etiologically related to an infectious agent. James Goedert, head of the Viral Epidemiology branch of the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD), has assembled as contributors to Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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