Etiology and Pathogenesis > Infection


Brain Tumors


Andrea Altieri, DSc, Felipe Castro, MSc, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, PhD and Kari Hemminki, PhD
Association between number of siblings and nervous system tumors suggests an infectious etiology
Neurology, December 12 2006, Volume 67, Issue 11, Pages 1979-1983

Hemminki K, Brandt A, Sundquist J, Bermejo JL
Brain cancers in siblings of salivary gland cancer patients suggest viral etiology?
Int J Cancer. 2008 Mar 1;122(5):1198-9; Published Online: 23 Oct 2007
 Abstract |  DBLinks | BL 7:4


Gliomas


Cobbs CS, Harkins L, Samanta M, Gillespie GY, Bharara S, King PH, Nabors LB, Cobbs CG, Britt WJ.
Human cytomegalovirus infection and expression in human malignant glioma
Cancer Res. 2002 Jun 15;62(12):3347-50
Abstract | Full Text | Reprint | DBLinks | BL 1:1


Mitchell DA, Xie W, Schmittling R, Learn C, Friedman A, McLendon RE, Sampson JH.
Sensitive detection of human cytomegalovirus in tumors and peripheral blood of patients diagnosed with glioblastoma.
Neuro Oncol. 2007 Oct 19; [Epub ahead of print]
Abstract


Scheurer ME, Bondy ML, Aldape KD, Albrecht T, El-Zein R.
Detection of human cytomegalovirus in different histological types of gliomas
Acta Neuropathol. 2008 Mar 20; [Epub ahead of print]
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DBLinks | BL 7:7


Pediatric Brain Tumors


Dickinson HO, Nyari TA, Parker L
Childhood solid tumours in relation to infections in the community in Cumbria during pregnancy and around the time of birth

Br J Cancer 2002 Sep 23;87(7):746-50 (Retrospective Study, Abstract)

Nicola T. Fear, Eve Roman, Pat Ansell, Diana Bull
Malignant neoplasms of the brain during childhood: the role of prenatal and neonatal factors (United Kingdom)
Cancer Causes and Control, 12 (5): 443-449, June 2001
(Statistical Analysis, Abstract)

Sarah J. Hepworth, Richard G. Feltbower and Patricia A. McKinney
Childhood leukaemias and CNS tumours: Correlation of international incidence rates
European Journal of Cancer, Volume 42, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 509-513; Available online 10 January 2006; doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2005.07.036 
Abstract

M.P.W.A. Houben, J.W.W. Coebergh, J.M. Birch, C.C. Tijssen, C.M. van Duijn, R.J.Q. McNally
Space–time clustering patterns of gliomas in the Netherlands suggest an infectious aetiology
European Journal of Cancer,  Volume 41, Issue 18, Pages 2917-2923. December 2005
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McNally RJ, Cairns DP, Eden OB, Alexander FE, Taylor GM, Kelsey AM, Birch JM.
An infectious aetiology for childhood brain tumours? Evidence from space-time clustering and seasonality analyses
Br J Cancer. 2002 Apr 8;86(7):1070-7
Abstract | DBLinks | BL 1:1

 

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