Longstanding query starting in 1950s: Do viruses cause cancer?

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Longstanding query starting in 1950s Do viruses
cause cancer?

• Harald zur Hausen, MD Dusseldorf (and wife
  Ethel-Michelle de Villiers)
• Epstein-Barr Viruslymphoma 1966
• Do genital warts have a virus? HPV 6 DNA 1980
• What about cervical CA? HPV 16, 18 DNA 1983
• Controversy was he right? YES
• Nobel Prize, 2008

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Papilloma Viruses and Cancer

• How did it happen?
• The role of epidemiology in linking HPV with
  various cancer
• Who is at risk for HPV-related cancer? Why?
• Who should be screened? How and how often?
• How does HPV cause cancer?
• Can a vaccine prevent HPV-related cancers?
• Who should be vaccinated? Will they be?
• A Pandoras Box of challenges!