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ArticleCancer cell international2025

Oncovirus classification and insights into herpes simplex virus, Varicella-Zoster virus.

Amir Ghaemi, Sanaz Sadeh

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Article in Cancer cell international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Amir GhaemiDepartment of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, P.O. Box: 1316943551, Tehran, Iran. ghaem_amir@yahoo.com.
Sanaz SadehDepartment of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, P.O. Box: 1316943551, Tehran, Iran.

Funding

National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) 962110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Even though the paper entitled: The role of oncolytic virotherapy and viral oncogenes in the cancer stem cells: a review of virus in cancer stem cells" provides informative details regarding viral contribution in cancer biology, its classification of Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) and Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) as oncoviruses is inaccurate.Current evidence demonstrates that while HSV and VZV may reactivate in immunocompromised cancer patients, there is no causative relationship between these two viruses and oncogenesis. It is necessary to make a distinction between cancer-inducing viruses and reactivated viruses due to immune suppression among cancer patients.

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Herpes simplex virusOncovirusReactivationTumorigenesisVaricella-Zoster virus

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PMID41044749
PMCPMC12495670

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