Measles Virus is Associated with Hodgkin Lymphoma and Additional Tumors - a Never Ending Story |Biomedgrid

Evidence for their involvement - partly from the detection of the agents in biopsies......and partly from animal and epidemiological studies. The biologic agent (virus) is usually responsible for only a limited number of steps in the initiation/progression of cancer. In many cases the precise role of cancer-associated virus is hard to decipher due to the long delay from the initial viral infection! The number of individuals infected by the virus is much larger than that with virus-associated cancers. Therefore, viruses must act in conjunction with other factors.