In the century since its inception, the field of tumor virology has provided groundbreaking
insights into the causes of human cancer. Peyton Rous founded this scientific field in 1911 …

The RNA and DNA tumor viruses have made fundamental contributions to two major areas
of cancer research. Viruses were vital, first, to the discovery and analysis of cellular growth …

The study of cancer is incomplete without taking into consideration of tumorigenic viruses.
Initially, searches for human cancer viruses were fruitless despite an expansion of our …

An estimated 15 percent of all human cancers worldwide may be attributed to viruses [1],
representing a significant portion of the global cancer burden. Both DNA and RNA viruses …

Highlights•Viral infections cause approximately 12% of all human cancers.•Viral cancers
represent rare outcomes of frequent infections.•Oncogenicity of viral proteins reflects their …

It is estimated that viral infections contribute to 15–20% of all human cancers. As obligatory
intracellular parasites, viruses encode proteins that reprogram host cellular signaling …

The study of acute-transforming retroviruses and their oncogenes and of the multiple
mechanisms deployed by DNA viruses to circumvent the growth-suppressive and …

Viruses are the intracellular pathogens that reproduce only in the living cell and manipulate
the cellular machinery to produce more viruses. Viral replications can affect cellular genes of …

The impact of basic research on oncology has been particularly impressive in the recent
search for the cause of malignancy. Equally impressive is our appreciation of the cause of …

There is a strong association between viruses and the development of human malignancies.
A group of oncogenic DNA viruses exists in the human population today, members of which …