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David Lindquist1, Mircea Romanitan, Lalle Hammarstedt, Anders Näsman, Hanna Dahlstrand, Johan Lindholm, Liselotte Onelöv, Torbjörn Ramqvist, Weimin Ye, Eva Munck-Wikland, Tina Dalianis.
Abstract
From 1970 to 2002 in the Stockholm area, we revealed a parallel three-fold increase in the incidence of tonsillar cancer and the proportion of human papillomavirus (HPV) positive tonsillar cancer cases, indicating a possible role of HPV infection in this disease. We have now examined whether HPV and viral load in pre-treatment tonsillar cancer biopsies correlates to disease prognosis, and whether the presence of HPV-16 E6 and E7 mRNA could be ascertained. The presence of HPV-16, but not viral load, in tonsillar cancer was shown to be a favourable prognostic factor for clinical outcome. Moreover, E6 and/or E7 were expressed in almost all assessable HPV-16 positive cases, supporting an oncogenic role of HPV-16 in tonsillar cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 19383307 PMCID: PMC5543872 DOI: 10.1016/j.molonc.2007.08.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Oncol ISSN: 1574-7891 Impact factor: 6.603