The causal role of human papillomavirus infections in non-anogenital cancers. It's time to ask for the functional evidence.

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 9-11

  Von Knebel Döberitz, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS DNA;

CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; DISEASE MARKER; E6 GENE; E7 GENE; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; WART VIRUS; NEOPLASM; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84961755001     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30059     Document Type: Editorial

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