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Far from Uganda's celebrity-endorsed war against HIV/Aids, and million-dollar campaigns to combat malaria, a silent struggle is on against a remorseless killer. Breast cancer has emerged as the third commonest cancer to affect Ugandan women, after cervical cancer and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth. Doctors and patients who get shingles late in life have also known for many years that some viruses, particularly the herpes virus, can lie dormant in a person's cells for long periods of time and then reactivate, causing disease.
Kampala — UGANDAN women have for long only rushed for clinical breast cancer screening to ascertain whether the lumps in their breasts are cancerous or not.
The city wants to require shops that sell cigarettes to post health notices that will include a photo of blackened lungs.
A recent study focuses on the intersection of these two scientific puzzles, resulting in new discoveries about how one herpes virus known to cause cancer may reactivate when the infected cell senses another type of virus entering it.
Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth. Doctors - and patients who get shingles late in life - have also known for many years that some viruses, particularly the herpes virus, can lie dormant in a person's cells for long periods of time and then reactivate, causing disease. These viruses also cause ...
Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth.
A recent study led by Blossom Damania, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focuses on the intersection of these two scientific puzzles, resulting in new discoveries about how one herpesvirus known to cause cancer may reactivate when the infected cell senses another type of virus entering it.
( University of North Carolina School of Medicine ) A recent study led by Blossom Damania, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focuses on the intersection of these two scientific puzzles, resulting in new discoveries about how one herpes virus known to cause cancer may reactivate when the infected cell senses another type ...
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