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Identifying Dysregulated Genes Induced by Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV)
Published on: September 14, 2010
Pathogenesis of AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma
1School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Abstract:
Kaposi's sarcoma presents the oncologist with a myriad of unanswered questions. What accounts for the genesis, distribution, and natural history of this tumor? How could a tumor with such a singular histologic appearance occur in such diverse clinical circumstances? What accounts for the unusual geographic, ethnic, and demographic features of Kaposi's sarcoma? Clearly, the answers to these questions will involve a multifactorial etiology, and may only be arrived at by methodical, piecemeal dissection of each question.
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