306690

Toxoplasma and Cancer: Friends or Faux? Uncorking the Paradox

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Parasitology

Abstract

Cancer is a life-threatening disease that occurs because of the uncontrolled proliferation of cells in any organ or tissue of the body. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan that replicates only after host cell invasion. Some studies elucidated that there is a high seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma antibodies in various cancer types. T. gondii was linked to several types of malignancies such as leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, glioma, meningioma, neuroblastoma, breast and ovarian tumours, and lung cancer. On the contrary, other studies reported low titres of anti-Toxoplasma antibodies with a state of resistance to cancer. The current research focuses on the use of the auxotrophic mutant of T. gondii in the treatment of the most aggressive types of cancer: melanoma, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, and ovarian cancer. This review aims to spotlight on how T. gondii can promote cancer, the anti-cancer effects of T. gondii and the possible mechanisms of these effects.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2023.213644.1394

Keywords

Anti-cancer, Cancer, Immunotherapy, toxoplasma gondii

Authors

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Fadel

MiddleName

Fathi

Affiliation

Medical Parasitology Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

emanfathy@med.sohag.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-3264-1887

First Name

Hanaa

Last Name

EL hady

MiddleName

ahmed

Affiliation

Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag university, Egypt

Email

hanaaelhady@yahoo.com

City

sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Aml

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mostafa

Affiliation

Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, sohag university, Egypt

Email

moustafad658@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Tolba

MiddleName

Essa Merghany

Affiliation

Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assuit University, Egypt

Email

essa3eg@aun.edu.eg

City

Assuit

Orcid

-

Volume

27

Article Issue

3.

Related Issue

41629

Issue Date

2023-09-01

Receive Date

2023-06-05

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

1

Page End

5

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_306690.html

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306,690

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Review Article

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2,807

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Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Toxoplasma and Cancer: Friends or Faux? Uncorking the Paradox

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Created At

24 Dec 2024