Retrovirus risk factor

Cancer is a significant and growing problem worldwide. While this increase may, in part, be attributed to increasing longevity, improved case notifications and risk-enhancing lifestyle (such as smoking, diet and obesity), hygiene-related factors resulting in immuno-regulatory failure may also play a major role and call for a revision of vaccination strategies to protect against a range of cancers in addition to infections.

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Presently, the known gamma-retroviruses, Xenotropic Murine Leukemia virus (MLV) - related Virus (XMRV) is imminent as a cancer causing infectious virus in prostate cancer. This study has been designed on retrovirus (XMRV) infection in Indian PCa patient and its co-relation with clinical pathological and demographic parameters of prostate cancer cases and Benign Prostate hyperplasia (BPH) as controls. A total of 235 prostate samples including 105 confirmed prostate cancer cases and 130 benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) as controls were analyzed for XMRV infection.

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