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Cancer centers in low- and middle-income countries

Section edited by: Dr Kishor Bhatia and Dr Edward Trimble.

This section will provide a platform to showcase detailed features of institutes from low and middle income countries including; activities and resources for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and palliative care (available facilities, health care worker resources, outreach programs, collaborations, research projects, oncology-related training facilities, etc.); funding support from local government, foundations, or privately borne by patients; key features of the cancer center and its partnerships that contribute to its success; challenges, both universal and setting-specific, and how they are addressed; policy and practice implications including discussion of what could be adapted by others, what gaps need to be addressed, and what differences might arise in other settings.

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  1. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the most common cancer arising from the nasopharynx that varies significantly from other cancers of the head and neck in its occurrence, causes, clinical behavior, and treatme...

    Authors: Ali Edris, Mona Ali Mohamed, Nouh S. Mohamed and Emmanuel E. Siddig

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:55

    Content type: Research Article

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:60

  2. HPV-16 modifies the overall survival (OS) of patients with oropharyngeal cancer (OPSCC). HPV-16 has been established as risk factor for OPSCC, but HPV-16 infection may also reside in the larynx and oral cavity...

    Authors: Bianca Rivera-Peña, Francisco J. Ruíz-Fullana, Germán L. Vélez-Reyes, Rosa J. Rodriguez-Benitez, María J. Marcos-Martínez, Juan Trinidad-Pinedo and Adriana Báez

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:47

    Content type: Research Article

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  3. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) reported to be associated with pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and miR-122 expression is down regulated in HCC. Previous studies reported miR-122 targets ...

    Authors: Manikankana Bandopadhyay, Neelakshi Sarkar, Sibnarayan Datta, Dipanwita Das, Ananya Pal, Rajesh Panigrahi, Arup Banerjee, Chinmay K. Panda, Chandrima Das, Shekhar Chakrabarti and Runu Chakravarty

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:40

    Content type: Research Article

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  4. HPV is the major etiological factor in the causal pathway for cervical cancer, which is the leading cancer among women in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV is associated with a higher prevalence and a broader range of h...

    Authors: Sonia Simone Menon, Rodolfo Rossi, Ronald Harebottle, Hillary Mabeya and Davy vanden Broeck

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:17

    Content type: Research Article

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  5. Most women in developing countries have never attended cervical screening programmes and often little information exists on type-specific human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence among these populations. Self-sam...

    Authors: Pierre Vassilakos, Rosa Catarino, Stephanie Bougel, Maria Munoz, Caroline Benski, Ulrike Meyer-Hamme, Jeromine Jinoro, Josea Lea Heriniainasolo and Patrick Petignat

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:13

    Content type: Research Article

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  6. We earlier proposed a genetic model for gallbladder carcinogenesis and its dissemination cascade. However, the association of gallbladder cancer and ‘inflammatory stimulus’ to drive the initial cascade in the ...

    Authors: Prajish Iyer, Savio George Barreto, Bikram Sahoo, Pratik Chandrani, Mukta R. Ramadwar, Shailesh V. Shrikhande and Amit Dutt

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:12

    Content type: Short Report

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  7. The association of human papillomavirus (HPV) with cervical cancer is well established.

    Authors: Mohamed A. Youssef, Lobna Abdelsalam, Reem Abdelhameed Harfoush, Iman Mamdouh Talaat, Eman Elkattan, Abeer Mohey, Rana M. A. Abdella, Marwa Salah Farhan, Hany Ahmed Foad, Abeer Mostafa Elsayed, Naglaa A. Elkinaai, Doaa Ghaith, Mohamed Elsayed Rashed, Mohamed Abd-El Ghafar, Yasser Khamis and Ahmed N. Hosni

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:6

    Content type: Research Article

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  8. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infections have been shown to be a necessary risk factor for the development of cervical cancer. However, HPV genotype distribution varies geographically, both in type and relative p...

    Authors: A. K. Awua, S. T. Sackey, Y. D. Osei, R. H. Asmah and E. K. Wiredu

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2016 11:4

    Content type: Research Article

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  9. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will increase globally, with the largest increase being on the African continent. On our continent, projections ha...

    Authors: D. C. Stefan, N. Masalu, L. Ngendahayo, D. Amadori, M. Botteghi, M. Mendy, N. A. Othieno-Aabinya, T. Ngoma, F. Asirwa, O. Balogun, W. Ngwa, E. Vuhahula and A Adesina

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:48

    Content type: Meeting Report

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  10. Data on Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) infection are scarce in Morocco. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of HPV and cervical cytology abnormalities in women from the Souss area, Morocco.

    Authors: Essaada Belglaiaa, Hicham Elannaz, Bouchra Mouaouya, Mohamed Aksim, Mariette Mercier, Jean-Luc Prétet, Said Chouham and Christiane Mougin

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:44

    Content type: Research Article

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  11. The aberrant expression of miR-23b is involved in the development and progression of cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential role of methylation in the silencing of miR-23b in cervical canc...

    Authors: Gabriela Elizabeth Campos-Viguri, Hilda Jiménez-Wences, Oscar Peralta-Zaragoza, Gricenda Torres-Altamirano, Diana Guillermina Soto-Flores, Daniel Hernández-Sotelo, Luz Del Carmen Alarcón-Romero, Marco Antonio Jiménez-López, Berenice Illades-Aguiar and Gloria Fernández-Tilapa

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:42

    Content type: Research Article

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  12. Sub-Saharan countries including Nigeria have the highest burden of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the world. Most studies on HPV surveillance in Nigeria were done in the southern part of the country. ...

    Authors: Mohammed Mohammed Manga, Adeola Fowotade, Yusuf Mohammed Abdullahi, Aliyu Usman El-nafaty, Danladi Bojude Adamu, Hamidu Umar Pindiga, Rasheed Ajani Bakare and Abimbola Olu Osoba

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:39

    Content type: Research Article

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  13. Prostate cancer causes the highest number of cancer-related deaths in Jamaican men. It is not known whether rural-dwelling men present with worse disease than urban-dwelling men at initial presentation. Since ...

    Authors: William D. Aiken, Kieron S. Jones, Camille Ragin and Kenneth James

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:32

    Content type: Research Article

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  14. NRLP1 (rs12150220, rs9889625, rs9900356, rs6502867, rs2670660) and NLRP3 (rs35829419, rs10754558) polymorphisms have been analyzed in 69 subjects with documented asbestos exposure and dea...

    Authors: Violetta Borelli, Ronal R Moura, Elisa Trevisan and Sergio Crovella

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:26

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  15. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with cervical cancer, the most frequent cancer in women from northern Brazil. Assessment of the short-term impact of HPV vaccination depends on the availabili...

    Authors: Rodrigo Covre Vieira, Jeniffer do Socorro Valente Monteiro, Estéfane Primo Manso, Maria Renata Mendonça dos Santos, Mihoko Yamamoto Tsutsumi, Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Karla Valéria Batista Lima and Maísa Silva de Sousa

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2015 10:21

    Content type: Short Report

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  16. In Tanzania, 5.1% of adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV. While rates of HIV-related malignancies have declined globally with antiretroviral therapy (ART), including Tanzania, rates of non-AIDS-defining ca...

    Authors: Clare Meernik, Amr S Soliman, Twalib Ngoma, Crispin Kahesa, Julius Mwaiselage and Sofia D Merajver

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2014 9:42

    Content type: Research Article

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  17. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a prerequisite of cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer mortality in Ethiopian women today. Data on Ethiopian cervical HPV prevalence and genotype distribution ar...

    Authors: Sami-Ramzi Leyh-Bannurah, Christof Prugger, Maurits NC de Koning, Hartmut Goette and Ralph J Lellé

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2014 9:33

    Content type: Research article

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  18. The main cause of cervical cancer in the world is high risks human papillomavirus infection (mainly represented by HPV-16 and HPV-18), that are associated to the development of malign transformation of the epi...

    Authors: Bruna Pedroso Tamegão-Lopes, Edivaldo Costa Sousa-Júnior, Fabio Passetti, Carlos Gil Ferreira, Wyller Alencar de Mello and Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte Silvestre

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2014 9:25

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in women in Zimbabwe. This is mainly due to the high prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in the population. So far...

    Authors: Nyasha Chin'ombe, Natasha L Sebata, Vurayai Ruhanya and Hilda T Matarira

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2014 9:16

    Content type: Review

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  20. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is often present in oropharyngeal cancers. Head and neck tumors have been examined for other molecular markers including p53 and annexin A1 (ANXA1). Here, we investigated the prevale...

    Authors: Cleberson Jean dos Santos Queiroz, Cíntia Mara de Amorim Gomes Nakata, Egle Solito and Amílcar Sabino Damazo

    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2014 9:13

    Content type: Research article

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