Download or read book Molecular Signatures of Infectious Agents in Cancer written by M. Verma and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cancer Biomarkers Research Group (CBRG) of the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), National Cancer Institute, sponsored a workshop entitled Molecular Signatures of Infectious Agents in Bethesda, Maryland, September 7 - 8, 2000, to identify molecular signatures of infectious agents and to utilize this information for risk assessment and development of prevention strategies against these infectious agents. The specific objectives of the workshop were to review state-of-the-science in detection technology that can identify extraneous genomic insertion in human cancers and to establish future research directions for using the molecular signatures of infectious agents for early detection, risk assessment and prevention of cancer.