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Prevalence of human papillomavirus 16/18/33 infection and p53 mutation in lung adenocarcinoma.
Cancer science - 1 Aug 2010
Iwakawa Reika, Kohno Takashi, Enari Masato, Kiyono Tohru, Yokota Jun
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a causative event for the development of uterine cervical carcinoma. Human papillomavirus (HPV) 16, 18, and 33 DNA has been also detected frequently in lung adenocarcinomas (AdCs) in East Asian countries; however, its prevalence in Japan remains unclear. We therefore screened for HPV 16/18/33 DNA in 297 lung AdCs in a Japanese population by multiplex PCR with type-specific...
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