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4th Biennial Conference of Asia Oceania Research Organization on Genital Infections and Neoplasia
Delhi, India
March 26-28, 2010
www.aoginindia.org 

Emerging Oncogenic Viruses
San Pietro, Bevagna, in Manduria, Italy
June 2-6, 2010
www.iarc.fr/oncogenicviruses2010/

UICC World Cancer Congress
Shenzhen, China
August 18 – 21st, 2010
www.worldcancercongress.org

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The 13th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI)
Maritim Hotel, Berlin, Germany
November 4-7, 2010
held jointly with The German Society of Obstetrics & Gynecology
http://www.comtecmed.com/cogi/berlin

Background Information
At the present time, approximately 20% of all human cancers worldwide have been associated with infectious agents. This percentage is likely to be higher in low-resource countries where, due to socio-economic conditions, infections are more frequent and health care surveillance is less available than in high-resource countries. Based on a vast number of biological and epidemiological studies, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified 6 viruses and one bacterium as human carcinogens, i.e. high-risk mucosal human papillomavirus (HPV) types, hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus, Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Kaposi sarcoma-associated virus (KSHV) and the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

The 20% estimate of pathogen-associated cancers may be rather a low one, and new evidence supports the involvement of additional infectious agents in human carcinogenesis. A recently discovered human polyomavirus, Merkel Cell polyomavirus, is associated with a rare tumour, Merkel cell sarcoma. Early epidemiological studies suggest that infection with MCPyV is widespread in humans, and additional tumour-associations may yet be discovered. Ongoing studies concerning a sub-group of HPV types that infect the skin suggest their involvement, together with ultraviolet radiation (or solar exposure), in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in normal populations.

This meeting is a joint IARC/DKFZ initiative, which will focus on discussions and the critical evaluation of epidemiology, immunology and biology of cancer-associated viruses. The meeting programme emphasises new HPV-related cancers, and newly discovered human polyomaviruses, although advances concerning other pathogens will be incorporated as they arise.