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2023-05-31 08:00:03
Among the 18 million new cancers diagnosed each year in the world, nearly 3 million are caused directly by a microbe: bacteria, virus or parasites. Cervical cancer, Burkitt’s lymphoma, liver cancer caused by hepatitis B or C viruses.
How the researchers were able to demonstrate the link between microbes and cancers ? Diagnosis, treatment prevention… What advances, thanks to this discovery, in the management of cancers ?
- Professor Antoine GessainProfessor and Director of the Research Unit « Epidemiology and pathophysiology of oncogenic viruses » at the Pasteur Institute. Author of the book Microbes et Cancers. Dangerous relationships, published by Odile Jacob.
- Dr. Doudou Diouf, medical oncologist, teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Dakar in Senegal
- Report by Raphaelle Constant.
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