Is prostate cancer an HPV-associated lesion?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-

  Kong, De Bo ^a   Zheng, Xiang Yi ^a   Xie, Li Ping ^a   Sima, Ni ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN E6; PROTEIN E7; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS;

EID: 56249095773     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.08.022     Document Type: Letter

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