Skin Tumor Vaccine Shows Promise In Wild Mice, Rising Hope For Transplant Patients, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Study
Papillomaviruses (linked to cervical cancer when they infect the mucosal tissue in the female reproductive tract) can also infect normal skin, where they cause warts and possibly non-melanoma skin cancer, mostly in immune-suppressed organ transplant patients. An article published on February 20th in PLOS Pathogens suggests that vaccination might prevent virus-associated benign and malignant skin tumors.
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