Breast Cancer (Etiology)

Virus Potentially Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer

Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 30th, 1999

The virus that causes glandular fever, also known as "kissing disease," may also play a role in many cases of breast cancer, European researchers said.

They said they found Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the tumors of about half of all the women with breast cancer they examined.

Irene Joab and colleagues at France's medical research institute INSERM, as well as a team in Germany, looked at 100 tissue samples taken from women with breast cancer. In 30 cases they compared tumor tissue to tissue from healthy cells nearby.

Genetic material from the virus was found in 51 of the 100 samples, and only three of the comparative samples of...

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