Thursday, September 24, 2015

Co-carcinogenesis hypothesis and prostate cancer

Francis Peyton Rous' Co-carcinogenesis hypothesis: that a virus and a carcinogen together cause cancer.

Prostate cancer and flaviviruses? Previous post looked at flaviviruses, melanocortin receptors, and melanoma.

prostate and chikungunya virus
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26167328

melanocortin receptors and prostate cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22842514

West nile case where his prostate was involved
http://www.star-telegram.com/living/family/moms/article3832474.html

Prostate cancer and melanoma
http://healthcare.utah.edu/healthlibrary/related/doc.php?type=88&id=p10776
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813922
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/7/2/670

melamona post
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2015/09/skin-cancer-melanoma-and-melanocortin.html

Note that other viruses can cause cancer too: the key to the co-carcinogenesis hypothesis is that a virus and a carcinogen have to be together in the tissue.

Herpes virus and prostate cancer
http://www.practiceupdate.com/content/genital-herpes-may-double-prostate-cancer-risk/13075

Estrogen receptors and prostate cancer (assuming herpes uses estrogen)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pros.10242/abstract

Are there 2 forms of prostate cancer? can we tell them apart?

Benzene uses estrogen receptors so it could be the carcinogen
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2016/06/benzene-carcinogen-binds-estrogen.html

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