The authors of the report emphasize that people can’t ‘catch’ cancer. Only a minor proportion with the cancer associated viruses develop the illness.
Though, up to 18 per cent of new cancer cases around the world are linked with viruses.
"Infection represents one defined link in the chain of events leading to cancer development," stated Professor Alan Rickinson, a scientist from the Cancer Research UK Institute
at Birmingham University.
"Knowing this helps us to trace other links in the chain and to understand how it all fits together."
Significant progress in cervical cancer research
Development for vaccine against cervical cancer is already highly advanced. The scientists believe it might preclude 70 per cent of cases. In UK, almost 3,000 cases of the disease are reported each year.
A vaccine has also been developed for the Hepatitis B virus which is associated with liver cancer.
