danny burstein
2024-02-10 05:43:26 UTC
[the times dot co dot uk]
Professor Sir Anthony Epstein
Pathologist who discovered the first human virus associated with cancer
Saturday February 10 2024, 12.01am, The Times
Anthony Epstein was at a lecture on children's cancers in tropical
Africa given by the Irish "bush surgeon" Denis Burkitt in March 1961 when
he had his eureka moment. "I thought there must be some biological agent
involved with the children's cancers," he told the BBC's Health Check
programme in 2014. "I was working on chicken viruses which cause cancer. I
had virus-inducing tumours at the front of my head. I thought ... [it] was
being carried by some insect vector, or some tic." He recalled thinking
that if viruses could cause cancer in birds, why not in humans?
In September, Epstein visited Burkitt at the Mulago Hospital in
Kampala, Uganda, and began to map the incidence of the tumours that
Burkitt was discovering across...
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Professor Sir Anthony Epstein
Pathologist who discovered the first human virus associated with cancer
Saturday February 10 2024, 12.01am, The Times
Anthony Epstein was at a lecture on children's cancers in tropical
Africa given by the Irish "bush surgeon" Denis Burkitt in March 1961 when
he had his eureka moment. "I thought there must be some biological agent
involved with the children's cancers," he told the BBC's Health Check
programme in 2014. "I was working on chicken viruses which cause cancer. I
had virus-inducing tumours at the front of my head. I thought ... [it] was
being carried by some insect vector, or some tic." He recalled thinking
that if viruses could cause cancer in birds, why not in humans?
In September, Epstein visited Burkitt at the Mulago Hospital in
Kampala, Uganda, and began to map the incidence of the tumours that
Burkitt was discovering across...
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rest (subscription required, sorry..):
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-sir-anthony-epstein-zgpcfj5wk
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