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A prostate cancer link to papilloma virus?
German scientists have found a possible link between prostate cancer and a common sexually transmitted pathogen.
References:
Serth, J., et al. 1999. Increased levels of human papillomavirus type 16 DNA in a subset of prostate cancers. Cancer Research 59(Feb. 15):823.
Further Readings:
Centifanto, Y.M., H.E., et al. 1973. Herpesvirus particles in prostatic carcinoma cells. Journal of Virology 12:1608.
Dodd, J.G., M. Paraskevas, and P.J. McNicol. 1993. Detection of human papillomavirus 16 transcription in human prostate tissue. Journal of Urology 149:400.
McNicol, P.J., and J.G. Dodd. 1991. High prevalence of human papillomavirus in prostate tissues. Journal of Urology 145:850.
______. 1990. Detection of human papillomavirus DNA in prostate gland tissue by using the polymerase chain reaction amplification assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 28:409.
Seppa, N. 1998. Papillomavirus common in college women. Science News 153(March 21):186.
Strickler, H.D., et al. 1998. A multifaceted study of human papillomavirus and prostate carcinoma. Cancer 82:1118.
Sources:
Jürgen Serth
Medical School of Hannover
Department of Urology
OE6247, Carl Neuberg Strasse
30625 Hannover
Germany
Jonathan W. Simons
Johns Hopkins University
Oncology Center
409 Marburg Building
600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
Howard D. Strickler
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine
Belfer Building, Room 1308-B
1300 Morris Park Avenue
New York, NY 10461
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 9, February 27, 1999, p. 135. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
