| human papillomavirus testing for suspected cervical cancer patients from southern assam by fast-pcr. | world-wide epidemiological studies have shown that cancer of the uterine cervix is the second most common malignant disease in women. virtually every cervical cancer (99.7%) is hpv-positive, indicating that the presence of hpv is an obligatory element in their development. the present study was conducted by fast-pcr (within 15 min.) based diagnosis of hpv 16 and hpv 18 infection amongst patients of suspected cervical cancer, confirmed by cytological methods. twelve women, out of a total of fifty ... | 2011 | 21627377 |
| p53 gene mutation and human papillomavirus (hpv) infection in esophageal carcinoma from three different endemic geographic regions of india. | infection of high-risk human papillomaviruses (hpvs), particularly the hpv types 16 and 18 and mutation or aberrant expression of the p53 tumour suppressor gene, has strongly been implicated in human esophageal carcinoma, which shows a great variation in geographic distribution. neither the reason(s) for such a variation nor the etiopathogenesis of the disease is clearly understood. the present study has been carried out to determine prevalence of high-risk hpv types 16 and 18 and the p53 gene m ... | 2005 | 15639342 |