ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2014
Detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA prevalence and p53 codon 72 (Arg72Pro) polymorphism in prostate cancer in a Greek group of patients.
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- Worldwide Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus and Relative Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2015Pooled it
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- Multiple pathogens and prostate cancer.Infectious agents and cancer · 2022Review
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- Association between human papillomavirus and prostate cancer: A meta-analysis.Oncology letters · 2017Article
- MDM2 and P53 polymorphisms contribute together to the risk and survival of prostate cancer.Oncotarget · 2016Article
- Lack of detection of human papillomavirus DNA in prostate carcinomas in patients from northeastern Brazil.Genetics and molecular biology · 2016Article
- Extracellular MicroRNA in liquid biopsy: applicability in cancer diagnosis and prevention.American journal of cancer research · 2016Review
- Human papillomavirus 16 infection as a potential risk factor for prostate cancer: an adaptive meta-analysis.Epidemiology and health · 2015Article
- Lack of evidence of HPV etiology of prostate cancer following radical surgery and higher frequency of the Arg/Pro genotype in Turkish men with prostate cancer.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of UrologyArticle
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Abstract
Prostate cancer is the most common neoplasm found in males and the second most frequent cause of cancer-related mortality in males in Greece. Among other pathogens, the detection frequency of human papillomavirus (HPV) has been found to be significantly increased in tumor tissues among patients with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), depending on the geographical distribution of each population studied. The present study focused on the detection of HPV and the distribution of Arg72Pro p53 polymorphism in a cohort of healthy individuals, as well as prostate cancer patients. We investigated the presence of HPV in 50 paraffin-embedded prostate cancer tissues, as well as in 30 physiological tissue samples from healthy individuals by real-time PCR. Furthermore, the same group of patients was also screened for the presence of the Arg72Pro polymorphism of the p53 gene, a p53 polymorphism related to HPV. Out of the 30 control samples, only 1 was found positive for HPV (3.33 %). On the contrary, HPV DNA was detected in 8 out of the total 50 samples (16 %) in the prostate cancer samples. The distribution of the three genotypes, Arg/Arg, Arg/Pro, and Pro/Pro, was 69.6, 21.7, and 8.7 % in the cancer patients and 75.0, 17.86, and 7.14 % in healthy controls, respectively. No statistically significant association was observed between the HPV presence and the age, stage, p53 polymorphism status at codon 72, or PSA. The increased prevalence of HPV detected in the prostate cancer tissues is in agreement with that reported in previous studies, further supporting the association of HPV infection and prostate cancer.
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