{"id":33992,"date":"2025-07-03T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33992\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:57:12","slug":"cancer-isnt-just-genetic-its-contagious-cancerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33992\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Isn\u2019t Just Genetic, It\u2019s Contagious &#8211; CancerWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CancerWorld<\/strong> shared a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/cancerworld_cancer-hpv-hepatitis-activity-7345754602404823041-70g2?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAEFHvEABUgX5NSeJGEx5I2xsrcujQ67sS1U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCANCER ISN\u2019T JUST GENETIC. IT\u2019S CONTAGIOUS.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, we told ourselves cancer was a non-communicable disease\u2014born from DNA damage, bad luck, and lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>But what if one in eight cancers is triggered by something you can catch?<\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking new feature for CancerWorld, Prof. <strong>Adriana Albini<\/strong> traces the explosive science behind infection-driven cancer: from <strong>HPV<\/strong> and hepatitis, to parasites, bacteria, and even fungi shaping tumors at the genomic level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fusobacterium nucleatum<\/strong> driving colon cancer via KRAS mutations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malassezia globosa<\/strong> accelerating pancreatic tumors by suppressing immune responses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candida albicans<\/strong> reprogramming the tumor microenvironment in breast and oral cancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HPV + EBV<\/strong> co-infections supercharging cancer gene expression through super-enhancers.<\/p>\n<p>This is oncology reimagined, where microbes are not just passengers but architects of malignancy.<\/p>\n<p>2.2 million cancers a year are now attributed to infections. In low-income countries (LMICs), that number climbs to 1 in 4. And it\u2019s reshaping how we treat and prevent cancer, from vaccines and antimicrobials to microbiome-modifying immunotherapies.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re still thinking of cancer as \u2018non-communicable,\u2019 you\u2019re missing the microbial forest for the mutational trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cancerworld.net\/pathogen-related-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Read it. Share it.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More posts featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/CancerWorld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CancerWorld.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CancerWorld shared a post on LinkedIn: \u201cCANCER ISN\u2019T JUST GENETIC. IT\u2019S CONTAGIOUS. For decades, we told ourselves cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114786588900299010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}