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Research Article: Herpes zoster is not associated with subsequent gastrointestinal cancer: data from over 200,000 outpatients in Germany

Date Published: 2023-09-27

Abstract:
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are an increasing global health challenge. Viral diseases play an important role in the development of GI cancers. For example, Epstein-Barr virus, which belongs to the human herpesvirus family, is a well-recognized risk factor for the development of gastric cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate a possible association between varicella-zoster virus reactivation and subsequent diagnosis of GI cancer.

Introduction:
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a neurotropic virus that belongs to the human herpesvirus family. After primary infection, the virus persists in neural tissue for life (Patil et al. 2022). Accordingly, VZV can cause two types of disease: (i) Chickenpox, the initial exogenous infection, and (ii) herpes zoster (HZ), the clinical manifestation of an endogenous reactivation of persistent latent VZV from sensory ganglia (Cohen 2013). HZ is particularly common in the elderly. In addition, immunocompromised patients,…

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