Is Breast Cancer an Infectious Disease?

“New evidence for a link between a virus and human breast cancer has been revealed in a series of studies by Australian researchers. The virus, dubbed HHMMTV, is very similar to a version known to trigger mammary cancer in mice.

The researchers stress that they have not proven that the human form causes cancer in people – but if it does, its raises the possibility of developing a vaccine against the deadly disease.” New Scientist