© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
Infection, Cancer and Prevention: Report of the 19th International Symposium of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
1 National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
2 EmuraCenter LatinoAmerica, El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia
3 New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
For reprints and all correspondence: Daizo Saito, Chief Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1, Tsukiji 5-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan. E-mail: dsaitoh@ncc.go.jp
Received September 21, 2006; accepted September 30, 2006
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Infection, Cancer and Prevention, the Nineteenth International Symposium of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research, was held in Tokyo on 2123 February 2006. The symposium was organized by Drs Daizo Saito, Martin Blaser, Tadao Kakizoe, Kumao Toyoshima, Hiroshi Yoshikura, Toshiya Hirayama, Tadahito Kanda, Kunitada Shimotohno and Kensei Tobinai, with Dr Takashi Sugimura as advisor.
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Professor Takashi Sugimura (National Cancer Center, Tokyo) opened the symposium with a welcome address and a review of previous symposia (1,2). The Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research has held this International Symposium annually since 1987, as one of the activities of the first 10-year strategy for its cancer control program, and has continued through the second and third terms of the strategy. From the first to the 18th symposium, the total number of invited speakers was 578: 307 from Japan, 183 from the USA, 17 from the UK, 14 from
| INFECTION |
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Virus
Overview
EpsteinBarr Virus (EBV)
HBV and HCV
HTLV-1
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpes Virus (KSHV)
Bacteria
Parasite
| CANCER MECHANISM |
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Free Radicals
Virus
EpsteinBarr Virus (EBV)
HBV and HCV
HTLV-1
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Bacteria
| PREVENTION |
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Virus
HBV and HCV
HTLV-1
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Bacteria
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