| epstein-barr-virus-associated gastric cancer in russia. | the present investigation was carried out to estimate the prevalence of ebv-associated cases among gastric carcinoma (gc) patients of russia and the republics of the former soviet union (fsu). with this aim, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded blocks from 206 gastric carcinomas obtained from patients of the cancer research center, moscow, were investigated by ebv-encoded rna-1 (eber-1) in situ hybridization applied to paraffin sections. as a result, 18 gc cases (8.7%) revealed uniform eber-1 expres ... | 1997 | 9399652 |