Skip to main content
. 2015 Jun 17;89(17):8967–8973. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00822-15

TABLE 1.

Association of viruses with human cancer

Cancer No. of samples No. of patientsa
Other virusesb
HBV HCV EBV CMV HHV-6B HPV16 HPV38
ACC (adrenocortical carcinoma) 79
BLCA (bladder urothelial carcinoma) 119 1 3 1 1 3 (HPV6)
BRCA (breast invasive carcinoma) 125 1
CESC (cervical squamous cell carcinoma) 91 1 1 59 11 (HPV18), 9 (HPV45), 3 (HPV59), 13 (HPVother)
COAD (colon adenocarcinoma) 44 2 4 2 2 (HPyV6)
DLBC (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) 28
GBM (glioblastoma multiforme) 95
HNSC (head and neck squamous cell carcinoma) 123 2 1 14 2 (HPV33), 2 (HPV35), 1 (HPV56), 1 (HHV-1)
KICH (kidney chromophobe) 66
KIRC (kidney renal clear cell carcinoma) 67 1 (HPV18), 1 (HPV94)
KIRP (kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma) 120
LGG (brain lower grade glioma) 100 1
LIHC (liver hepatocellular carcinoma) 115 22 6 1 1 1 (HPV18), 1 (AAV2)
LUAD (lung adenocarcinoma) 125
LUSC (lung squamous cell carcinoma) 125 3 1 1 (HPV30)
PRAD (prostate adenocarcinoma) 124 1 1
READ (rectum adenocarcinoma) 36 5 4
SKCM (skin cutaneous melanoma) 82 1 1
THCA (thyroid carcinoma) 123
UCEC (uterine corpus endometrioid carcinoma) 168 30c
UCS (uterine carcinosarcoma) 57 1 1 (HPV5), 1 (HPV38b), 1 (HPV133)
Total 2,012 23 6 14 17 5 77 30 55
a

The number of patients with each cancer type with observed viral sequences in the RNA-Seq data. HHV, human herpesvirus; HPV, human papillomavirus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HBV, hepatitis B virus; CMV, cytomegalovirus. The numbers after the virus abbreviations represent subtypes.

b

The number of other viruses that were found in each cancer type, with the virus name in parentheses. AAV, adeno-associated virus; HPyV, human polyomavirus.

c

See Discussion in the text.