Last week, the Karolinska Institute situated in Sweden has claimed to acknowledge a viral association to medulloblastoma that triggers brain cancer among children. The findings are expected to catalyze an array of experiments aiming to pinpoint the virus contribution for raising the number of cancer cases. A majority of experts, including Harald zur Hausen, have anticipated that around 40% cancer cases account for viruses. Earlier he had credited to have won the Nobel Prize and credited to highlight the relationship between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer.

"We anticipate in the next few decades that many additional human cancer viruses will be discovered and the mechanisms underlying viral oncogenesis (cancer creation) discovered", notified an expert, Ronit Sarid, who serves as a Professor of virology at Bar-Ilan University of Israel, in a document.

In addition, experts have acknowledged that in most of the cases a violent form of skin cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma, is observed to chase contamination through a bird virus, polyomavirus, that has enough caliber to affect humans as well. Further, they have also blamed polyomavirus for creating a feasible environment for the development of other forms of skin cancer. To conclude the findings, scientists have performed DNA analysis.

Besides skin cancer, the experts have also acknowledged several incidents to depict that a strain of the herpes virus can have a close association for initializing medulloblastoma, which is the most common form of a brain tumor.

While commenting on the recent findings, a Professor of cancer studies at Birmingham University, Alan Rickinson, said that any clue that can help the researchers to understand the attacking mechanism of virus will defiantly boost the reach work to develop related, medications and therapies.

Meanwhile, in another research scientists have applauded anti-viral therapies to slow the growth of brain tumor by 70% among the animals.