• Infections Causing Human Cancer

  • 965 | 680
  • ISBN: 978–3-527–31056–2
  • Author: Harald zur Hausen
  • Lang: English
  • Writing: English
  • Resource type: textbook
  • Number of pages: 517 p
  • Publishing: WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
  • Year of publication: 2006
  • Published: Germany

Book description


  For many years I have been tempted to write a comprehensive book on the role of in-fectious agents in human cancers. Progress has been particularly rapid in this field during the course of the past 25 years, and today we can convincingly report that ap-proximately 20% of the global cancer incidence is initiated or promoted by infec-tious events.