title: The infectious causes of cancer.
abstract: This article considers the scale and epidemiology of cancers caused by infectious agents and the mechanisms by which they may induce cancers, the known or suspected viral causes of cancer and finally bacterial and parasitic organisms that are or may be carcinogenic. It also discusses the effect of organisms that do not infect humans directly, where their impact is significant.
authors.affiliation: Leukaemia Research Fund.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D003043:Cocarcinogenesis; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000150:complications