Cancer virus : the story of Epstein-Barr virus / Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan Rickinson, & Ingólfur Johannessen.

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Crawford, Dorothy H [author.]

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computer

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online resource

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9780191508684
0191508683
9781306426480
1306426480

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cancer virus.DDC classification:

616.994071 23

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QR400.2.E68 C73 2014eb

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Contents:

Out of Africa -- The eureka moment -- Convincing the sceptics -- EBV in Africa : Burkitt lymphoma -- EBV in Asia : nasopharyngeal carcinoma -- New EBV diseases : an accident of nature, an accident of medicine -- Unexpected arrivals : Hodgkin lymphoma and the T/NK cell lymphomas -- Prevention and cure -- Making sense of a human cancer virus.

Summary: The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease. It has been associated withdifferent, apparently unrelated, diseases in different populations: Burkitt's Lymphoma, producing tumours in the jaw ...

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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease. It has been associated withdifferent, apparently unrelated, diseases in different populations: Burkitt's Lymphoma, producing tumours in the jaw ...