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cancer of infectious origin
Etiology:
- cervical cancer & anal cancer: papillomavirus, HIV1 infection (risk)
- Kaposi sarcoma: human herpesvirus 8, HIV1 infection (risk)
- Hodgkin's lymphoma: Epstein-Barr virus
- non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: HIV1 infection (risk), AIDS-defining cancer
- Burkitt's lymphoma: Epstein-Barr virus
- MALT lymphoma: Helicobacter pylori
- hepatocellular carcinoma: hepatitis B, hepatitis C
- nasopharyngeal cancer: Epstein-Barr virus
- oropharyngeal cancer: papillomavirus
General
malignant neoplasm (cancer)
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 19
Board Basics. An Enhancement to MKSAP19.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2022