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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, No 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
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Kofman A, Marcinkiewicz L, Dupart E, Lyshchev A, Martynov B, Ryndin A, Kotelevskaya E, Brown J, Schiff D, Abounader R.
The roles of viruses in brain tumor initiation and oncomodulation.
J Neurooncol. 2011 Jul 1. [Epub ahead of print]
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Poltermann S, Schlehofer B, Steindorf K, Schnitzler P, Geletneky K, Schlehofer JR
Lack of association of herpesviruses with brain tumors
J Neurovirol. 2006 Apr;12(2):90-9
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Glioblastoma


Lehrer S
Anopheles mosquito transmission of brain tumor
Med Hypotheses. 2009 Aug 3;. [Epub ahead of print]
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Michaelis M, Doerr HW, Cinatl J
The story of human cytomegalovirus and cancer: increasing evidence and open questions
Neoplasia. 2009 Jan;11(1):1-9
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Miller G
Brain cancer. A viral link to glioblastoma?
Science. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):30-1
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Pandey JP.
Genetic and Viral Etiology of Glioblastoma--a Unifying Hypothesis.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 May 17. [Epub ahead of print]
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Soroceanu L, Matlaf L, Bezrookove V, Harkins L, Martinez R, Greene M, Soteropoulos P, Cobbs CS.
Human Cytomegalovirus US28 Found in Glioblastoma Promotes an Invasive and Angiogenic Phenotype.
Cancer Res. 2011 Sep 7. [Epub ahead of print]
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Gliomas


Cinatl J Jr, Nevels M, Paulus C, Michaelis M
Activation of telomerase in glioma cells by human cytomegalovirus: another piece of the puzzle
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009 Apr 1;101(7):441-3. Epub 2009 Mar 24
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Cobbs CS.
Evolving evidence implicates cytomegalovirus as a promoter of malignant glioma pathogenesis.
Herpesviridae. 2011 Oct 26;2(1):10. [Epub ahead of print]
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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
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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. 2008 Feb;10(1):10-8. Epub 2007 Oct 19
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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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Pediatric Patients


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

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

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, No 4, March 2006, Pages 509-513; Available online 10 January 2006; doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2005.07.036 
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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, No 18, Pages 2917-2923. December 2005
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McNally RJ, Bithell JF, Vincent TJ, Murphy MF
Space-time clustering of childhood cancer around the residence at birth
Int J Cancer. 2009 Jan 15;124(2):449-55
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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
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