ArticleCancers2010
Viruses and breast cancer.
Article in Cancers, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Human betaretrovirus (HBRV), homologous to mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV), and human breast cancer: a significant epidemiological association.Retrovirology · 2026Pooled it
- The prevalence and clinicopathological features of breast cancer patients with hepatitis B virus infection in China.Oncotarget · 2017Pooled it
- The Differential Expression of the JAK/STAT Pathway in Breast Cancer Cells Transfected with Human Papillomavirus Oncogenes.Viruses · 2025Article
- lncRNABiomedicines · 2025Article
- Review
- Evidence of cancer-linked rodent zoonoses from biophysical genomic variations.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Peptide Vaccines as Therapeutic and Prophylactic Agents for Female-Specific Cancers: The Current Landscape.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Epstein-Barr Viral Infection and the Risk for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review.International journal of hematology-oncology and stem cell research · 2023Review
- Detection of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus DNA in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Specimens.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2022Article
- Incidence of HPVs, EBV, and MMTV-Like Virus in Breast Cancer in Qatar.Intervirology · 2022Article
- Presence of high-risk HPVs, EBV, and MMTV in human triple-negative breast cancer.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Haploinsufficiency Interactions between RALBP1 and p53 in ERBB2 and PyVT Models of Mouse Mammary Carcinogenesis.Cancers · 2021Article
- Molecular Genetics in Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Malignancies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Human papillomavirus, gene mutation and estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancer: a cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
- How latent viruses cause breast cancer: An explanation based on the microcompetition model.Bosnian journal of basic medical sciences · 2019Review
- Human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B inhibits migration of breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells and impairs TGF-β/Smad2/3 expression.Oncology letters · 2018Article
- Updating the epidemiological transition model.Epidemiology and infection · 2018Article
- A germ-line deletion of APOBEC3B does not contribute to subtype-specific childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia etiology.Haematologica · 2018Article
- HPV Status and Its Correlation with BCL2, p21, p53, Rb, and Survivin Expression in Breast Cancer in a Chinese Population.BioMed research international · 2017Article
- Human papillomavirus and breast cancer in Iran: a meta- analysis.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2016Review
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Viruses are the accepted cause of many important cancers including cancers of the cervix and anogenital area, the liver, some lymphomas, head and neck cancers and indirectly human immunodeficiency virus associated cancers. For over 50 years, there have been serious attempts to identify viruses which may have a role in breast cancer. Despite these efforts, the establishment of conclusive evidence for such a role has been elusive. However, the development of extremely sophisticated new experimental techniques has allowed the recent development of evidence that human papilloma virus, Epstein-Barr virus, mouse mammary tumor virus and bovine leukemia virus may each have a role in the causation of human breast cancers. This is potentially good news as effective vaccines are already available to prevent infections from carcinogenic strains of human papilloma virus, which causes cancer of the uterine cervix.
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