Danbury Hospital Researchers Find Viruses Could Affect Cancer Outcomes

Researchers from the Western Connecticut Health Network Biomedical Research Institute in Danbury have discovered that a virus contracted early in life can lay dormant in human cells and be reactivated years later when cancer is diagnosed, possibly changing the outcomes of the disease. Dr. Cristiano Ferlini, the research institute's Rudy and Sally Ruggles endowed Chief of Cancer Research, and his colleagues made this discovery by investigating viral microRNA expression in a series of ovarian cancer tissue samples taken from The Cancer Genome Atlas database.



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