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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2025

A landscape review with novel criteria to evaluate microbial drivers for cancer: priorities for innovative research targeting excessive cancer mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rebecca Toumi van Dorsten, Robert F Breiman

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rebecca Toumi van DorstenInfectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Robert F BreimanInfectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The escalating cancer burden in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with projected doubling of incidence and mortality by 2040, necessitates innovative, cost-effective strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. While known infectious triggers like HPV, hepatitis viruses, and

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NeoplasmsAfrica South of the SaharaCarcinogenesisHumansMicrobiotacancer causationcriteria for microbial oncogenesisinfectious diseaseinfectious disease and cancermicrobiome and canceroncovirus and cancersub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

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PMID40909339
PMCPMC12405255

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