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Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P48
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Effect of immunodeficiency and tumor marker expression on HIV-related diffuse large B-cell lymphoma prognosis
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P47 -
KSHV encoded miRNA single nucleotide polymorphisms identified in clinical samples can affect miRNA processing and level of expression
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P40 -
Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV)-associated lymphomas are associated with markedly elevated serum IL-10, elevated IL-6, IL-17 and circulating KSHV
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P39 -
Incidence and risk factors for lung cancer among women in the women's interagency HIV study (WIHS) and men in the multicenter AIDS cohort study (MACS)
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O24 -
Prospective evaluation of the impact of potent antiretroviral therapy on the incidence of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in East Africa: findings from the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Consortium
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O19 -
Pap testing among newly diagnosed women living with HIV/AIDS (WLWHA) in South Carolina (SC): routine screening and abnormal follow-up behaviors of HIV-positive female SC medicaid recipients 18-64 years between 2005-2009
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P18 -
A phase 1/PK study of Sunitinib with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in HIV+ patients with solid tumors: AIDS malignancy consortium study 061
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O15 -
Modified dose intensive R- CODOX-M/IVAC for HIV-associated burkitt (BL) (AMC 048) shows efficacy and tolerability, and predictive potential of IRF4/MUM1 expression
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O14 -
Making the case for better integration of cervical cancer screening and treatment for HIV-infected women attending care and treatment clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P13 -
HIV/AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and confounders: preliminary report of the Sub-Saharan Africa Lymphoma Consortium (SSALC)
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P11 -
Detection of helicobacter pylori in benign laryngeal lesions by polymerase chain reaction: a cross sectional study
Although Helicobacter Pylori (HP) was detected in some cases of chronic laryngitis, the results were not confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By this time, it has not been found in laryngeal lesions b...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:10 -
Evaluation of the AIDS clinical trials group staging criteria for Kaposi Sarcoma in a resource limited setting
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P8 -
Diagnosing Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) in East Africa: how accurate are clinicians and pathologists?
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):P6 -
Genetic variation in KSHV encoded microRNAs affects microRNA expression and is associated with multicentric Castleman’s disease risk
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O5 -
The genetic landscape of immune-competent and HIV lymphoma
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7(Suppl 1):O1 -
Activating KIR/HLA complexes in classic Kaposi's Sarcoma
Classic Kaposi's Sarcoma (cKS) is a rare vascular tumor associated with Human Herpesvirus 8 (KSHV) infection, nevertheless not all KSHV-infected individuals have cKS.
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:9 -
Chlamydia psittaci in ocular adnexa MALT lymphoma: a possible role in lymphomagenesis and a different geographical distribution
Ocular adnexa MALT-lymphomas represent approximatively 5-15% of all extranodal lymphomas. Almost 75% of OAMLs are localized in orbital fat, while 25% of cases involves conjunctive. MALT-lymphomas often recogni...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:8 -
Innate immunity and hepatitis C virus infection: a microarray's view
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces a chronic infection in more than two-thirds of HCV infected subjects. The inefficient innate and adaptive immune responses have been shown to play a major pathogenetic role in t...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:7 -
HIV Co-receptor usage in HIV-related non-hodgkin's lymphoma
In this study 15 banked samples of HIV-related Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) cases were tested for HIV co-receptor usage and SDF1 3'A polymorphism. Reportable tropism from 9 plasma samples had 1 (11.1%) HIV cas...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:6 -
A case-control study of Burkitt lymphoma in East Africa: are local health facilities an appropriate source of representative controls?
We investigated the feasibility and appropriateness of enrolling controls for Burkitt lymphoma (BL) from local health facilities in two regions in Uganda.
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:5 -
Evaluation of a combined triple method to detect causative HPV in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas: p16 Immunohistochemistry, Consensus PCR HPV-DNA, and In Situ Hybridization
Recent emerging evidences identify Human Papillomavirus (HPV) related Head and Neck squamous cell carcinomas (HN-SCCs) as a separate subgroup among Head and Neck Cancers with different epidemiology, histopatho...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:4 -
Cervical cytological changes in HIV-infected patients attending care and treatment clinic at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tanzania is among Sub-Saharan countries mostly affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic, females being more vulnerable than males. HIV infected women appear to have a higher rate of persistent infection by high r...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:3 -
Hepatitis C virus to hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatitis C virus causes acute and chronic hepatitis and can lead to permanent liver damage and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a significant number of patients via oxidative stress, insulin resistance (IR),...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:2 -
mTOR inhibitors: A novel class of anti-cancer agents
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2012 7:1 -
A case-cohort study of human herpesvirus 8 seropositivity and incident prostate cancer in Tobago
We previously reported a cross-sectional association between the presence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) serum antibodies and screen-detected prostate cancer in men living in Tobago. In the same study populati...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:25 -
Low frequency of human papillomavirus infection in conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma of Mexican patients
The relationship between Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and conjunctiva cancer is controversial. HPV detection will provide more information about the role of this infectious agent in the biology of conj...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:24 -
Performance of the digene LQ, RH and PS HPVs genotyping systems on clinical samples and comparison with HC2 and PCR-based Linear Array
Certain Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the infectious agents involved in cervical cancer development. Detection of HPVs DNA is part of the cervical cancer screening protocols and HPVs genotyping has been pr...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:23 -
Prevalence and predictors of kaposi sarcoma herpes virus seropositivity: a cross-sectional analysis of HIV-infected adults initiating ART in Johannesburg, South Africa
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common AIDS-defining tumour in HIV-infected individuals in Africa. Kaposi sarcoma herpes virus (KSHV) infection precedes development of KS. KSHV co-infection may be associated w...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:22 -
High-risk HPV infection after five years in a population-based cohort of Chilean women
The need to review cervical cancer prevention strategies has been triggered by the availability of new prevention tools linked to human papillomavirus (HPV): vaccines and screening tests. To consider these inn...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:21 -
Distribution of HPV genotypes in cervical intraepithelial lesions and cervical cancer in Tanzanian women
Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with uterine cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cancers (ICC). Approximately 80% of ICC cases are diagnosed in under-developed countri...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:20 -
HPV16 variant lineage, clinical stage, and survival in women with invasive cervical cancer
HPV16 variants are associated with different risks for development of CIN3 and invasive cancer, although all are carcinogenic. The relationship of HPV 16 variants to cancer survival has not been studied.
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:19 -
Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha expression is increased in infected positive HPV16 DNA oral squamous cell carcinoma and positively associated with HPV16 E7 oncoprotein
There is increasing evidence for the role of High Risk (HR) Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) in the pathogenesis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC). The E6 and E7 oncogenes from HR HPVs are responsible for the d...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:18 -
Rare association of Visceral leishmaniasis with Hodgkin's disease: A case report
We present here a case of young male with complaints of fever and swelling in the neck for eight months. History of progressive weakness associated with weight loss was present. Physical examination revealed p...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:17 -
HIV and cancer in Africa: mutual collaboration between HIV and cancer programs may provide timely research and public health data
The eruption of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in young homosexual men in 1981 in the West heralded the onset of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection epidemic, which ...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:16 -
Parasite infection is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) in Ugandan women
Immune modulation by parasites may influence susceptibility to bacteria and viruses. We examined the association between current parasite infections, HIV and syphilis (measured in blood or stool samples using ...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:15 -
Retroviruses and retroelements in diseases and in gene therapy: 15 years later
The past 15 years opened new avenues for retrovirus and retroelement research. Not surprisingly, they stemmed from essential knowledge collected in the past, which remains the ground of the present and therefo...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:14 -
Prostate cancer health and cultural beliefs of black men: The Florida Prostate Cancer Disparity Project
Since behavioral factors are significant determinants of population health, addressing prostate cancer (CaP)-related health beliefs and cultural beliefs are key weapons to fight this deadly disease. This study...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S10 -
Nigerian foodstuffs with prostate cancer chemopreventive polyphenols
Dietary polyphenols are antioxidants that can scavenge biological free radicals, and chemoprevent diseases with biological oxidation as their main etiological factor. In this paper, we review our laboratory da...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S9 -
Review of prostate cancer research in Nigeria
Prostate cancer (CaP) disparities in the black man calls for concerted research efforts. This review explores the trend and focus of CaP research activities in Nigeria, one of the ancestral nations for black m...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S8 -
Bone mineral density in Jamaican men on androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been reported to reduce the bone mineral density (BMD) in men with prostate cancer (CaP). However, Afro-Caribbeans are under-represented in most studies. The aim was to d...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S7 -
Prostate cancer outcome in Burkina Faso
African-American black men race is one of non-modifiable risk factors confirmed for prostate cancer. Many studies have been done in USA among African- American population to evaluate prostate cancer disparitie...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S6 -
Impact of health system challenges on prostate cancer control: health care experiences in Nigeria
Prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer of men (913 000 new cases, 13.8% of the total) and the fifth most common cancer overall. Prostate cancer is the sixth leading cause of death from ...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S5 -
Bridging the urological divide
The advanced disease clinical presentations, higher morbidity and mortality rates and lack of available treatment options in prostate cancer care, attest to disparities in the delivery and outcomes of urologic...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S4 -
Research collaboration with low resource countries: overcoming the challenges
The gap in research capacity between low and high resource countries and the effect on the global trend of health research cannot be ignored any more. Therefore the need for research collaboration between the ...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S3 -
Geographic and outcome variation among black men diagnosed with prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the sixth leading cause of death from cancer among men worldwide. We have previously reported that prostate cancer survival rates for Caribbean-born males in the US was similar to survival r...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S2 -
Detecting gene-gene interactions in prostate disease in African American men
The most common male malignancy in the United States is prostate cancer; however its rate of occurrence varies significantly among ethnic groups. In a previous cDNA microarray study on CaP tumors from African ...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):S1 -
Proceedings of the 1st Biennial Science of Global Prostate Cancer Disparities in Black Men
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 2):I1 -
TP 53 and MDM2 gene polymorphisms and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma among Italian patients
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms within TP 53 gene (codon 72 exon 4, rs1042522, encoding either arginine or proline) and MDM2 promoter (SNP309; rs2279744), have been independently associated with increased risk of...
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6:13 -
The role of megakaryocytes in breast cancer metastasis to bone
Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2011 6(Suppl 1):A7
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