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ReviewInternational journal of colorectal disease2011

Human papillomavirus and colorectal cancer: evidences and pitfalls of published literature.

Laura Lorenzon, Mario Ferri, Emanuela Pilozzi, Maria Rosaria Torrisi, Vincenzo Ziparo, Deborah French

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Review in International journal of colorectal disease, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Viruses in colorectal cancer.Molecular oncology · 2022
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  12. HPV16 AND EXPRESSION OF PROTEIN P16INK4A AND E7 ONCOPROTEIN IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMA.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2022
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  16. Human papillomavirus and gastrointestinal cancer: A review.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016
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  19. Tumor-based case-control studies of infection and cancer: muddling the when and where of molecular epidemiology.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2014
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  20. Human papillomavirus DNA is rarely detected in colorectal carcinomas and not associated with microsatellite instability: the Seattle colon cancer family registry.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura LorenzonII Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome La Sapienza, St. Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy. laura.lorenzon@uniroma1.it
Mario Ferri
Emanuela Pilozzi
Maria Rosaria Torrisi
Vincenzo Ziparo
Deborah French
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe aim of this study is to review published literature regarding a possible role of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in colorectal cancer in order to understand if HPV infection plays an active role in colorectal carcinogenesis and to highlight evidences and pitfalls of published studies.

methodsWe reviewed literature by searching PubMed, Ovid, and the Cochrane databases for published series investigating HPV and colorectal cancer from 1988 to date.

resultsTwenty-one studies investigating a possible correlation between HPV infection and colon cancer have been published. We reviewed 15 case-control studies and six studies investigating a possible role for HPV virus in colorectal carcinogenesis. HPV was detected in the majority of reported series with a significant difference in HPV infection between tumors and disease-free controls or tumor-adjacent tissue; the HPV mean detection rate within carcinomas was 41.7%, comparing to a mean detection rate of 32.8% in adjacent colic mucosae, and 5.8% in disease-free controls (Chi-square test, p = 0.001). The correlation between HPV infection and c-myc amplification, k-ras mutation, and p53 polymorphism or mutations has been investigated; however, the possible role of HPV in colorectal carcinogenesis was not defined.

conclusionsHPV has been detected in the majority of reported series, but published literature lacks in definitive data regarding standard methods of investigation and stratification of groups and population. These data encourage further studies with the aim to investigate the presence of the virus in larger series, its possible role in oncogenesis, the integration in host genome, the expression of viral oncoproteins, the mutations in HPV positive cancers and routes of colon infection (hematologic/lymphatic spreading or perineal diffusion).

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Biomedical ResearchCase-Control StudiesColorectal NeoplasmsHumansPapillomaviridaePublications

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PMID20809427
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