Author |
Silvestre, Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte
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Institution | Departamento de Anatomia Patológica Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Hospital Universitário João de Barros Barreto Departamento de Cirurgia Universidade Federal do Ceará Escola de Medicina Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Forense Ministério da Saúde Fundação Nacional de Saúde Fundação Nacional de Saúde Universidade Federal do Pará Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Laboratório de Citogenética Humana |
Abstract | The presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) was evaluated in 65 samples of prostate tumours and six samples of prostates with benign prostatic hyperplasia from individuals from Northern Brazil. We used a highly sensitive test, the Linear Array HPV Genotyping Test, to detect 37 high and low-risk HPV types. In this study, only 3% of tumour samples showed HPV infection. Our findings support the conclusion that, despite the high incidence of HPV infection in the geographic regions studied, HPV was not associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer. To our knowledge, this is the first study evaluating the frequency of HPV detection in prostatic tissue of individuals from Brazil. |
Keywords |
human papillomavirus
prostate cancer benign prostate hyperplasia |
Language | English |
Date | 2009-07-01 |
Published in | Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, v. 104, n. 4, p. 665-667, 2009. |
ISSN | 0074-0276 (Sherpa/Romeo, impact factor) |
Publisher | Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde |
Extent | 665-667 |
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Access rights | Open access ![]() |
Type | Article |
Web of Science ID | WOS:000269466900024 |
SciELO ID | S0074-02762009000400024 (statistics in SciELO) |
URI | http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/5133 |
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