Aids-Associated Viral Oncogenesis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meyers, C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 133
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.

AIDS-associated viral oncology is a significant healthcare problem. Since the identification of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated acquired immune disease syndrome (AIDS), the role of viruses in human cancers has become acutely apparent over the past twenty years. The understanding and tr...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• Aids Malignancies
• Molecular Biology of KSHV in Relation to AIDS-Associated Oncogenesis
• KSHV-Associated Disease in the AIDS Patient
• Molecular Biology of EBV in Relationship to AIDS-Associated Oncogenesis
• EBV-Associated Diseases in the AIDS Patient
• Human Papillomavirus Infection and Disease in the HIV+ Individual
• Polyomavirus SV40 and AIDS-Related Systemic Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• HIV–HBV and HIV–HCV Coinfection and Liver Cancer Development.