SV40 and human brain tumors.
Persons treated with polio vaccine presumably contaminated with SV40 did not develop more tumors within 20 years after vaccination than did those who had received SV40-free vaccine. Some intracranial tumors, however, might be more frequent among persons who have been treated with contaminated vaccine.
Geissler
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Zentralinstitut für Krebsforschung und für Molekularbiologie, Akademie der Wissenschaften, DDR, Berlin-Buch.
Staneczek
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D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D004340:Drug Contamination; D006801:Humans; D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013539:Simian virus 40
D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated