SV40 Infection in Glioblastoma Multiforme
Immortalized cells in a patient suffering from glioblastoma multiforme showed signs of infection by the SV40 virus. link. Further evidence of an alternate cause, particularly among who received the polio vaccine when it was contaminated with SV40, in brain cancer cases.
For the latest on the SV40 / mesothelioma debate see this article noting that both asbestos and SV40 cause calretinin (you remember - calretinin- from all those mesothelioma immunohistochemistry path reports you're always reading) to rush to the defense of mesothelial cells eventually, perhaps, exhausting some ill defined mechanism and leading to mesothelioma.
