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Spring Event - INCA Public Workshop from 28th to 30th April 2010 in France. More information here.
The INCA project:
INCA is a European research project that investigates the role of chronic Infections in the development of Cancer.
About 17% of human cancer cases occurring world-wide are caused by one of six human viruses:
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
- Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
- Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
- Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8, Kaposi´s sarcoma herpesvirus)
- Human T- cell leukemia virus I (HTLV-I)
Also the bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes many cases of stomach cancer and further unknown infectious agents that contribute to cancer may exist.
INCA aims towards a better understanding of:
- molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancers caused by these infectious agents
- mechanisms of long-term persistence of these infectious agents in apparently healthy hosts
- genetic factors that contribute to cancers associated with infection
Based on this knowledge INCA will develop and validate:
- in vivo models to study chronic inflammation and cancer progression
- new diagnostic procedures to identify infected people likely to develop cancers
This will ultimately lead to new drugs and procedures to interfere with development of infection-associated cancer.
INCA is supported by funding under the Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Union, (Integrated Project LSHC-CT-2005-018704). | |
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