Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 20th, 2004

Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines.

These findings suggest that simian virus 40 (SV40) may "participate" in the development of the blood cancer, said researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

There is no known etiology for most non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which has doubled in incidence within the past 30 years, said the researchers.

"We found a...

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