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Published in final edited form as: Oral Dis. 2016 Apr;22(Suppl 1):181–192. doi: 10.1111/odi.12418

Table 1.

Cancers caused by oncoviruses with sufficient and limited evidence according to the IARC criteria.

Virus	Cancers with sufficient evidence	Cancers with limited evidence
EBV	Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Burkitt’s Lymphoma Immunesuppression-related non- Hodgkin lymphoma, Extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (nasal type), Hodgkin’s lymphoma	Gastric carcinoma Lympho-epithelioma-like carcinoma Plasmablastic lymphoma Diffuse large B-cell/immunoblastic lymphoma (DLBCL)
HHV-8	Kaposi’s sarcoma Primary Effusion Lymphoma (classic and solid variants) Plasmablastic lymphomas	Extracavitary KSHV positive solid lymphoma Early PEL Germinotrophic lymphoproliferation
HPV-16	Cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, anus, oral cavity, oropharynx, and tonsil	Cancer of the larynx
HPV-18, 31, 33,35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, and 59	Cervical cancer