Detection of oncogenic HPV DNA by a consensus polymerase chain reaction method in genital carcinomas in twenty women in Barbados

ABSTRACT

Paraffinized tissue from Barbadian women with histologically proven gential carcinoma was subjected to a consensus polymerase chain reaction method. Nineteen patients had cervical and one, vaginal carcinoma. The histological types were 17 squamous cell carcinoma, 2 adenocarcinoma and 1 adenosquamous carcinoma. HPVDNA was detected in 18/20 (90 percent). HPVDNA type 16 in 13 (65 percent), type 33 and type 45 in 1 (5 percent) each and 3 (15 percent) could not be typed. HPVDNA, type 16, was detected in one (50 percent) of the two cases of adenocarcinoma and 12/17 (71 percent) cases of squamous cell carcinoma. DNAHPV, type 33, and type 45 were each detected in 1/17 (6 percent) cases of squamous cell carcinoma. No HPVDNA, type 18, was detected (AU)