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Location: Hodgkin's lymphoma
Discussion: mono and cancer
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mono and cancer
Jun 27 2006, 6:02 PM EDT my 19 year old friend was just diagnosed with hodgkins and the doctors thought it might have some correlation to the mono that he had the past year....has anyone else heard of this connection? 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 Louise |
RE: mono and cancer
Jun 28 2006, 12:01 AM EDT Chronic mononucleosis related to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is sometimes associated with a high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma called Burkitt's lymphoma, as well as Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The risk for someone with infectious mono related to EBV developing Hodgkin's is not entirely understood, and is quite rare (1 in 1000). Burkitt's lymphoma is very rare, and I haven't read much about the connection between mono and Burkitt's; however, I have read that there is some connection. Do you happen to know if your friend has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's or Hodgkin's lymphoma? I will try to find more information for you if I can. Good luck. Louise 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Anonymous |
RE: mono and cancer
Aug 14 2007, 11:02 AM EDT Below is an exerpt from a WebMD article about this. http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20031001/kissing-disease-increases-cancer-risk Look at the data though, and notice that most people get the virus and don't get cancer. Something must be happening in addition to the virus. Using a comprehensive nationwide medical database, investigators in Denmark compared 17,000 people with mononucleosis caused by Epstein-Barr virus to more than 24,000 people who were suspected of having mono, but did not have evidence of EBV. The risk of Hodgkin's disease was higher in people with a positive antibody blood test that confirmed mononucleosis caused by EBV. No increased risk in Hodgkin's disease was found in those people suspected of having mono but testing negative for EBV. An association between EBV and Hodgkin's disease has long been suspected. Studies have shown that there is a higher rate of the cancer in people with a history of mononucleosis. Studies also show that the virus is present in about 50% of these tumors. In the current study, researchers found that mono caused by EBV quadrupled the risk of Hodgkin's disease. Mono-like illnesses caused by other viruses, such as cytomegalovirus, were not associated with Hodgkin's. In addition, mono was directly linked to lymphomas that contained EBV and not to lymphomas with no evidence of the virus. The findings are reported in the Oct. 2 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Do you find this valuable? |
