Infectious Agents and Cancer

Article	Citations
The role of lipids and lipids lowering drugs in human papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV-associated cancers	46
Protection strategy against outbreak of COVID-19 at a tertiary hematology-oncology: strengths and pitfalls	33
Survey of HCMV in allogenic and autologous stem cell transplantation by real-time PCR in Kermanshah, west of Iran	32
Risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or more diagnoses for human papillomavirus16/18-positive women by cytology and co-infection status	32
Validation in Zambia of a cervical screening strategy including HPV genotyping and artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated visual evaluation	29
Impact of NLRP3 gene polymorphisms (rs10754558 and rs10733113) on HPV infection and cervical cancer in southern Chinese population	24
Pyroptosis patterns influence the clinical outcome and immune microenvironment characterization in HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	24
Re-thinking treatment strategies for febrile neutropenia in paediatric oncology population: the perspective from a developing country	23
Non-linear relationship of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to lymphocyte count ratio with the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma with staging I–II: a retrospective cohort study	22
Designing and psychometric assessment of the scale of factors influencing HPV vaccine uptake behaviors in young adults	20
Exploring the link between viruses and cancer in companion animals: a comprehensive and comparative analysis	19
Prevalence of 13 polyomaviruses in actinic keratosis and matched healthy skin samples of immunocompetent individuals	19
The performance of single and combination test strategies using visual inspection, cytology, high-risk HPV DNA and HPV16/18 to screen South African women with and without HIV-infection	19
Five-year overall survival following chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced cervical carcinoma in women living with and without HIV infection in Botswana	18
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) grip on T-cells: investigating the viral tapestry of activation	17
Vaccination strategy and anti - SARS-CoV-2 S titers in healthcare workers of the INT – IRCCS “Fondazione Pascale” Cancer Center (Naples, Italy)	17
The safety and efficacy of Glubran 2 as biliostatic agent in liver resection	16
Sociodemographic characteristics, attitudes, and knowledge associated with previous screening for cervical cancer among women in western Jamaica	16
Comparison of the AmpFire® Multiplex HPV Assay to the Xpert® HPV Assay for detection of human papillomavirus and cervical disease in women with human immunodeficiency virus: a pragmatic performance ev	15
Development and validation of a nomogram for assessing hepatocellular carcinoma risk after SVR in hepatitis C patients with advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis	15
Researchers should no longer delay implementation of Pap screening in low and middle income countries pending research into novel screening approaches	15
The prevalence of HPV among 164,137 women in China exhibited some unique epidemiological characteristics	14
Prophylactic treatment with oral azithromycin in cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic (OnCoVID): a randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial	14
Immune checkpoint blockade PD-1 therapy for primary liver cancer: incidence and influencing factors of thyroid dysfunction	14
Small extracellular vesicles as key players in cancer development caused by human oncogenic viruses	14

Prevalence of MMTV-like sequences in breast cancer samples in Romanian patients-there is a geographic difference compared to the Western world	13
Uptake of cervical cancer screening and its predictors among women of reproductive age in Gomma district, South West Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study	13
The effectiveness of HPV vaccination on the incidence of oropharyngeal cancers in men: a review	13
Elucidating the clonal relationship of esophageal second primary tumors in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma	12
Factors affecting Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus transmission in rural Ugandan households, a longitudinal study	11
The correlation between Trichomonas vaginalis infection and reproductive system cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Inhibitory effect and mechanism of Lactobacillus crispatus on cervical precancerous cells Ect1/E6E7 and screening of early warning factors	11
Association of dietary intake and cervical cancer: a prevention strategy	11
Comparison of the ScreenFire and Xpert HPV assays for the detection of human papillomavirus and cervical precancer among women living with HIV in Malawi	11
Immunophenotypic characterization of TCR γδ T cells and MAIT cells in HIV-infected individuals developing Hodgkin’s lymphoma	11
Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) positivity among female sex workers: a cross-sectional study highlighting one-year experiences in early detection of pre-cancerous and cancerous cervical lesio	11
Distinct pattern of lymphoid neoplasms characterizations according to the WHO classification (2016) and prevalence of associated Epstein–Barr virus infection in Nigeria population	10
The m6A methyltransferase METTL3 affects autophagy and progression of nasopharyngeal carcinoma by regulating the stability of lncRNA ZFAS1	10
Risk of residual/recurrent cervical diseases in HPV-positive women post-conization depends on HPV integration status	10
Correction: Utilization of cervical cancer screening services and its associated factors in Iran: a case–control study	10
A comprehensive cross-sectional survey to identify barriers and facilitators of cervical cancer screening in women with HIV in Guangxi, China	10
Combined extract of heated TC1, a heat-killed preparation of Lactobacillus casei and alpha-galactosyl ceramide in a mouse model of cervical cancer	9
The prognostic role of PD-L1 expression and the presence of polyomavirus in Merkel cell carcinoma cases	9
Comparison of systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), early warning score (ANDC) and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) in hospitalized patients with malignancy, and their influence on mortality fro	9
Analyses of Kaposi Sarcoma trends among adults establishing initial outpatient HIV care in Nigeria: 2006–2017	9
Metagenomic analysis to identify novel infectious agents in systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma	9
Brassicasterol inhibits hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma development via suppression of AKT signaling pathway	9
Molecular triage of cervical screening samples in women 55–59 years of age: a pilot study	9
Incidence of oncogenic HPV and HPV-related dysplasia five years after a negative HPV test by self-sampling in elderly women	8
Managing head and neck cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of a tertiary referral center in southern Italy	8
Interplay between Epstein-Barr virus infection and environmental xenobiotic exposure in cancer	8
Hepatitis B and C virus infections and the risk of biliary tract cancers: a meta-analysis of observational studies	8
BacMam virus-based surface display for HCV E2 glycoprotein induces strong cross-neutralizing antibodies and cellular immune responses in vaccinated mice	8
Exploring hematic crasis variations in cancer patients following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: a real-practice study	8
Microendoscopy in vivo for the pathological diagnosis of cervical precancerous lesions and early cervical cancer	7
Impact of plasma Epstein–Barr virus DNA in posttreatment nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients after SARS-CoV-2 infection	7
COVID-19 vaccination is associated with enhanced efficacy of anti-PD-(L)1 immunotherapy in advanced NSCLC patients: a real-world study	7
Severe coagulopathy caused by cefminox sodium in a liver cirrhosis patient: a case report	7
Levels of HBV RNA in chronic HBV infected patients during first-line nucleos(t)ide analogues therapy	7
Why so much uncertainty about adjuvant HPV vaccines after local treatment? Can the discrepancy between the positive statistical results and the scientific community doubts be solved?	7
Lung histopathological findings in COVID-19 disease – a systematic review	7
HPV types 16/18 L1 E6 and E7 proteins seropositivity and cervical cancer risk in HIV-positive and HIV-negative black South African women	6
Activating transcription factor 3 inhibits NF‑κB p65 signaling pathway and mediates apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in cervical cancer cells	6
Identification of key genes in hepatitis B associated hepatocellular carcinoma based on WGCNA	6
Hepatitis B virus induces sorafenib resistance in liver cancer via upregulation of cIAP2 expression	6
Emerging paradigms: unmasking the role of oxidative stress in HPV-induced carcinogenesis	6
Infectious diseases as a cause of death among cancer patients: a trend analysis and population-based study of outcome in the United States based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data	6
Human papillomavirus self-sampling versus standard clinician-sampling for cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	6
Association between colorectal cancer and expression levels of miR-21, miR-17-5P, miR-155 genes and the presence of Fusobacterium nucleatum in biopsy samples obtained from Iranian patients	6
High-grade B-cell lymphoma with 11q aberration in the HIV setting: a clinicopathological study of 10 cases and literature review	6
Correction: A comprehensive cross-sectional survey to identify barriers and facilitators of cervical cancer screening in women with HIV in Guangxi, China	6
Human papillomavirus type-specific distribution in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cancer in The Gambia prior to HPV immunization programme: a baseline for monitoring the quadrivalent vaccine	6
Undifferentiated carcinoma of the liver with osteoclast-like giant cells: a case report and literature review	6
Evaluating the presence of Mycoplasma hyorhinis, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Helicobacter pylori in biopsies of patients with gastric cancer	6
Outcome in patients with HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma treated with chemotherapy using Doxorubicin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine, and Dacarbazine in the combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) era: resu	6

HPV integration: a precise biomarker for detection of residual/recurrent disease after treatment of CIN2-3	6
Correction: Conventional, functional and radiomics assessment for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma	5
Prevalence and genotype specific concordance of oro-genital and anal human papillomavirus infections among sexually active Nigerian women	5
High-risk human papillomavirus genotyping in cervical cancers in Tanzania	5
Colorectal liver metastases patients prognostic assessment: prospects and limits of radiomics and radiogenomics	5
Correction: HPV genotyping by L1 amplicon sequencing of archived invasive cervical cancer samples: a pilot study	5
HPV knowledge and vaccine acceptability: a survey-based study among parents of adolescents (KAPPAS study)	5
Prophylactic antineoplastic activity of Toxoplasma gondii RH derived antigen against ehrlich solid carcinoma with evidence of shared antigens by comparative immunoblotting	5
Enhancing the robustness of Mendelian randomization studies: lessons from a two-sample analysis of viral infections and colorectal cancer	5
Correction: High Prevalence of Anal Oncogenic Human Papillomavirus Infection in Young Men Who Have Sex with Men Living in Bamako, Mali	5
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of newly diagnosed patients with human immunodeficiency virus-associated Burkitt lymphoma: the Central and Western China AIDS lymphoma league 002 study (CALL-002	5
Effects of Let-7c on the processing of hepatitis B virus associated liver diseases	5
Catching viral breast cancer	4
A prognostic model for Schistosoma japonicum infection-associated liver hepatocellular carcinoma: strengthening the connection through initial biological experiments	4
Feasibility and applicability of self-sampling based online cervical cancer screening: findings from the China online cervical cancer screening trial	4
Expression of 10 circulating cytokines/chemokines in HBV-related liver disease	4
The prevalence and genotype distribution of human papillomavirus among women in Guangxi, southern China	4
From viruses to cancer: exploring the role of the hepatitis C virus NS3 protein in carcinogenesis	4
HPV16 E6-specific T cell response and HLA-A alleles are related to the prognosis of patients with cervical cancer	4
Patients with multiple myeloma infected with COVID-19 during autologous stem cell transplantation	4
The effectiveness of a model-based health education program on genital warts preventive behaviors: a quasi-experimental study	4
p16INK4a and pRb expression in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma with and without infection by EBV or different genotypes of HPV: a retrospective study	4
Authors’ response to “Evaluation of Treatments for HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma in Africa”	4
Two cases demonstrate an association between Tropheryma whipplei and pulmonary marginal zone lymphoma	4
Combined detection of circulating tumor cells, α-fetoprotein heterogene-3 and α-fetoprotein in the early diagnosis of HCC for the prediction of efficacy, prognosis, recurrence after microwave ablation	4
Prevalence and characteristics of mouse mammary tumor virus-like virus associated breast cancer in China	4
Understanding lactate in the development of Hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma	4
No evidence for a pathogen associated with pulmonary MALT lymphoma: a metagenomics investigation	4
Frequency of viral infections in adolescent and adult in-patient Ethiopians with acute leukemia at presentation to a tertiary care teaching hospital: a cross-sectional study	4
Arterial chemoembolization for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and elevated lactate dehydrogenase is associated with low survival: a cohort study	4
Evaluation of human papillomavirus DNA in colorectal cancer and adjacent mucosal tissue samples	4
EBV persistence in gastric cancer cases conventionally classified as EBER-ISH negative	4
Presence of a mouse mammary tumour virus-like in feline lymphomas: a preliminary study	4
Global comparative transcriptomes uncover novel and population-specific gene expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma	4
An overview of “Chronic viral infection and cancer, openings for vaccines” virtual symposium of the TechVac Network - December 16-17, 2021	4
Estimating the prevalence of Epstein–Barr virus in primary gastric lymphoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Not only lymphadenopathy: case of chest lymphangitis assessed with MRI after COVID 19 vaccine	3
Are Blastocystis hominis and Cryptosporidium spp. playing a positive role in colorectal cancer risk? A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Case report: is necrotizing fasciitis in a rectal cancer patient after targeted systemic therapy related to the tumor site? - evidence from a hepatocellular carcinoma patient	3
Insight into the mechanisms regulating liver cancer stem cells by hepatitis B virus X protein	3
Discrepancy of p16 immunohistochemical expression and HPV RNA in penile cancer. A multiplex in situ hybridization/immunohistochemistry approach study	3
Genetic susceptibility association between viral infection and colorectal cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis	3
HPV genotypes in high-grade cervical lesions and invasive cervical carcinoma detected in Gabonese women	3
The global burden of cervical cancer requiring surgery: database estimates	3
Analytic performance of ScreenFire HPV RS assay Zebra BioDome format and its potential for large-scale population HPV screening	3
Correction: Cancer signs and risk factors awareness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a population-based survey	3
Seroprevalence of human papilloma virus 6, 11, 16 and 18 among pregnant women in Mwanza-Tanzania	3
The role of helminths and their antigens in cancer therapy: insights from cell line models	3
Strategies to evaluate outcomes in long-COVID-19 and post-COVID survivors	3
Association between colorectal cancer and Fusobacterium nucleatum and Bacteroides fragilis bacteria in Iranian patients: a preliminary study	3
Evaluation of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis correlation with the expression of cellular signaling pathway genes in Iranian patients with colorectal cancer	3
Correction: Emerging role of microbiota derived outer membrane vesicles to preventive, therapeutic and diagnostic proposes	3
Chlamydia pneumoniae infections and development of lung cancer: systematic review	2
Assessing Epstein–Barr virus in gastric cancer: clinicopathological features and prognostic implications	2
The causality between CD8+NKT cells and CD16−CD56 on NK cells with hepatocellular carcinoma: a Mendelian randomization study	2
Trends in gynaecologic cancer mortality and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	2
Low expression of NSD1, NSD2, and NSD3 define a subset of human papillomavirus-positive oral squamous carcinomas with unfavorable prognosis	2
Association between co-infection with Chlamydia trachomatis or Mycoplasma genitalium and cervical lesions in HPV-positive population in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study	2
Do women with high-risk HPV E6/E7 mRNA test positivity and NILM cytology need colposcopy?	2
Inflammatory pseudotumor-like follicular/fibroblastic dendritic cell sarcoma: focus on immunohistochemical profile and association with Epstein-Barr virus	2
Circular RNA circRHOBTB3 is downregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma and suppresses cell proliferation by inhibiting miR-18a maturation	2
Performance of DNA methylation analysis in the detection of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or worse (CIN3+): a cross-sectional study	2
Prevalence of HPV in anal cancer: exploring the role of infection and inflammation	2
Aspartate-β-hydroxylase and hypoxia marker expression in head and neck carcinomas: implications for HPV-associated tumors	2
Comprehensive high-throughput meta-analysis of differentially expressed microRNAs in transcriptomic datasets reveals significant disruption of MAPK/JNK signal transduction pathway in Adult T-cell leuk	2
No detectable truncating mutations in large T antigen (LT-Ag) sequence of Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) DNA obtained from porocarcinomas	2
Evaluation of treatments for HIV-associated Kaposi sarcoma in Africa	2
Epidemiology and survival outcomes of HIV-associated cervical cancer in Nigeria	2
Findings from a Malaysian multicentre study on oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma	2
Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on mortality of prostate cancer patients with COVID-19: a propensity score-based analysis	2
EPRS1 correlates with malignant progression in hepatocellular carcinoma	2
Evaluation of multidrug resistance in the Gram-negative microbiome of cancer patients and the adverse effects of their metabolites on albino rats and epithelial or fibroblasts cell lines	2
Use of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor therapy in HIV-infected patients with advanced cancer: a single-center study from China	2
Shared genetic factors and causal association between chronic hepatitis C infection and diffuse large B cell lymphoma	2
miR-3191 promotes the proliferation and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma via regulating PAK6	2
SARS-CoV-2 quantitative real time PCR and viral loads analysis among asymptomatic and symptomatic patients: an observational study on an outbreak in two nursing facilities in Campania Region (Southern	2
Circulating cell‐free epstein–barr virus DNA levels and clinical features in Moroccan patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma	2
The E6 and E7 proteins of beta3 human papillomavirus 49 can deregulate both cellular and extracellular vesicles-carried microRNAs	2
HIV-related lung cancer in Uganda: a cohort study	2
Cox proportional hazard-model application: time to cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in South Africa	2

Comparison of platinum monotherapy with concurrent chemoradiation therapy versus platinum-based dual drug therapy with concurrent chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: a systema	2
Mammalian tumor-like organs. 2. Mammalian adipose has many tumor features and obesity is a tumor-like process	2
The degradation of Rap1GAP via E6AP-mediated ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is associated with HPV16/18-infection in cervical cancer cells	2
Correction to: High dose rate intra-cavitary brachytherapy with cobalt 60 source for locally advanced cervical cancer: the Zimbabwean experience	2
Imaging of human papilloma virus (HPV) related oropharynx tumour: what we know to date	2
CTSG may inhibit disease progression in HIV-related lung cancer patients by affecting immunosuppression	2