Word: hausen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choking growths in the throat (HPV-11) to a bizarre warty rash found almost exclusively on the hands of butchers and meat handlers (HPV-7). So far, six types of HPV, all responsible for benign genital lesions, have also been associated with malignant cervical growths. Says Dr. Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg: "At least 80% of all cervical cancers are linked to papilloma...
...Viruses are one insult. They start the process rolling." Years usually elapse between infection and the development of a related cancer. When liver cancer strikes a hepatitis carrier, for example, it generally does so 30 to 50 years after the victim was first infected. These long delays, Zur Hausen observes, "suggest the need for other events besides infection to occur in order to progress to cancer...