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ReviewViruses2025

Oncogenic Viruses in Organ Transplantation: Implications of Virus-Host Interactions for Cancer Development.

Seyed-Mahmood Seyed-Khorami, Arezou Azadi, Ala Habibian, Monireh Hosseini, Xiaofeng Fan, Hoorieh Soleimanjahi, Mahmoud Reza Pourkarim

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Review in Viruses, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Oncology and Solid Organ Transplantation: New Biological and Clinical Insights.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Seyed-Mahmood Seyed-KhoramiDepartment of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran 14155, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-5043-8292
Arezou AzadiDepartment of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran 14155, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-4623-1296
Ala HabibianInfectious Diseases Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Science, Kashan 87159-81151, Iran.
Monireh HosseiniDepartment of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran 14155, Iran.
Xiaofeng FanDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3201-5499
Hoorieh SoleimanjahiDepartment of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran 14155, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-1931-7801
Mahmoud Reza PourkarimLaboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4620-6453

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organ transplantation significantly enhances the survival and quality of life for recipients. However, multiple dependent and independent variables can adversely affect life expectancy after transplantation. Cancer is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality for long-term organ transplant recipients. The incidence of cancer in transplanted tissues can be twice as high in approximately 32 distinct cancer types. Oncogenic viruses present in graft tissues may contribute to the etiology of various cancers in transplant recipients. Such oncogenic viruses include hepatitis viruses, papillomaviruses, Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi's sarcoma, Merkel cell virus, JC virus, BK virus, and human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, all of which have been associated with various malignancies in these patients. To mitigate this risk, a comprehensive viral screening protocol should be integrated into the transplantation process. Depending on the type of graft, diagnostic methods, control strategies, and post-transplantation care may vary considerably. To efficiently implement any strategy to inhibit viral oncogenicity, a comprehensive understanding of viral-host interactions involving oncogenic viruses within graft tissue is essential. The current view of tumor biology is that changes in the tumor microenvironment and immune signaling influence evolutionary selection pressures. Such interactions ultimately promote conditions that favor uncontrolled host-cell proliferation and malignant transformation. This review examines these viral-host interactions and their role in cancer development among transplant recipients.

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Host Microbial InteractionsHost-Pathogen InteractionsNeoplasmsOncogenic VirusesOrgan TransplantationAnimalsHumansTumor MicroenvironmentTumor Virus Infectionscancerdynamicsgraft rejectionGVHDhostinteractiononcogenestransplantviral recurrence

Identifiers

PMID41157571
PMCPMC12567568

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