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. 2021 Jun 1;13(11):2738. doi: 10.3390/cancers13112738

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Viruses and cancer. A virus is more likely to cause malignant tumors, chronic infections, and autoimmune complications when it infects a progenitor cell with stem-like properties rather than a progeny cell with mature phenotypes (illustrated by Benjamin Tu).