Under the patronage of the Dean of the College of Dentistry, Professor Dr. Raghad Abdul Razzaq Muhammad, the College of Dentistry at the University of Baghdad organized a symposium entitled (The relationship between viral infection and cancer. Delivered by: A.L. Alaa Wael Ezzat. In the presence of a number of faculty members and employees of the college.
The aim of the symposium was to identify the dangerous dimensions resulting from chronic infections with certain types of viruses and the resulting dangerous types of cancer.
The symposium also included topics that addressed an explanation of cancer caused by viruses, also known as viral tumors, which is a complex process that involves converting normal cells into cancer cells. , Following complex mechanisms by the virus results in cancer caused by viruses, in addition to the reasons that make some types of viral infections pose a great danger to our health. She also discussed the global distribution of infection and its severity, because long-term chronic infection causes cancer without resorting to appropriate treatment. In addition to the World Health Organization statistics on the number of infected people locally and globally and the annual infection rate. The researcher called for the necessity of prevention and avoiding infection with diseases caused by viruses by following appropriate prevention methods or by vaccination against specific types of viruses such as viral hepatitis and recently the human papillomavirus, which are the safest ways to avoid cancer. The world still needs concerted efforts in the field of research to invent new effective treatments and new vaccines for dangerous viruses that have not been reached to this day.
