Viral Cancers
Introduction
Viruses linked to cancers in humans are the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), associated with lymphomas and nasopharyngeal cancer, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), both associated with cancer of the liver, human papillomaviruses (HPV), associated with cancer of the cervix, human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and type 2 (HTLV-2), associated with adult T-cell leukemia and with hairy-cell leukemia, respectively, and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), associated with Kaposi sarcoma. No vaccine exists against these viruses except HBV. This chapter will describe vaccines under development against EBV, HCV and HPV.
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