Cancer (Risk Factors)

Virus Initiated Cancers May Be Sexually Transmissible

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 19th, 1997

A new finding of a tumor protein not made by human cells has raised suspicions that some cancers of the breast and female reproductive system may be virus related and sexually transmissible.

A research team led by Eva Rakowicz-Szulczynska of the University of Nebraska Medical Center studied tumors in more than 1,000 American and Polish women and reported the findings in early May 1997 at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

About 95 percent of the tumors contained so-called RAK proteins, which are similar to proteins made by HIV, and the tumors carried gene fragments coded like HIV.

Human cells do not make RAK...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-05-19)

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