Thursday, October 1, 2009

Cancer and Viruses

How many cancers are caused by viruses? Discovery magazine has a list and an interesting hypothesis. Here is info on a possible XMRV CFS connection 1st seen with XMRV and prostate cancer. More CFS XMRV info.
Breast Cancer caused by a murine (mouse) virus.
The CDC has a comment on a CFS HHP6/XMRV connection. (III, section 2., Laboratory Studies, #4 bullet.

"Evaluate the potential association of human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) and xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) with CFS using specimens from well-characterized patients and matched controls"

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