Breast cancer: Is there a viral connection?

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 373-381

  Akhter, Javed ^a   Ali Aziz, Mohammed Ashraf ^a   Al Ajlan, Abdulaziz ^a   Tulbah, Asma ^b   Akhtar, Mohammed ^b  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

APOBEC3; breast cancer; envelope; etiology; viral

Indexed keywords

APOBEC3B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEASLES VIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; WART VIRUS; BREAST TUMOR; COMPLICATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84905980443     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0000000000000037     Document Type: Review

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