ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020
Co-incidence of Human Papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr Virus Is Associated With High to Intermediate Tumor Grade in Human Head and Neck Cancer in Syria.
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- Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a functional "two-hit" model of papillomavirus-Epstein-Barr virus synergistic carcinogenesis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Cellular Senescence as a Risk Factor in Head and Neck Cancer-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Perspective.Cancers · 2025Review
- Application of CellSearch technique in detection of peripheral blood circulating tumour cell count in patients with head and neck cancer and its association with prognosis.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Incidence and association of high-risk HPVs and EBV in patients with advanced stages of colorectal cancer from Qatar.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Implications of oral dysbiosis and HPV infection in head and neck cancer: from molecular and cellular mechanisms to early diagnosis and therapy.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- Human Papillomaviruses-Related Cancers: An Update on the Presence and Prevention Strategies in the Middle East and North African Regions.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Multiple microRNA signature panel as promising potential for diagnosis and prognosis of head and neck cancer.Molecular biology reports · 2022Review
- Human Papillomavirus-Associated Head and Neck Cancers. Where are We Now? A Systematic Review.Cancer management and research · 2022Review
- Incidence of HPVs, EBV, and MMTV-Like Virus in Breast Cancer in Qatar.Intervirology · 2022Article
- High-Risk Human Papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr Virus Coinfection: A Potential Role in Head and Neck Carcinogenesis.Biology · 2021Review
- Copresence of High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr Virus in Colorectal Cancer: A Tissue Microarray and Molecular Study from Lebanon.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- The co-presence of high-risk human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus is linked with tumor grade and stage in Qatari women with breast cancer.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Oncoproteins of High-Risk HPV and EBV Cooperate to Enhance Cell Motility and Invasion of Human Breast Cancer CellsFrontiers in oncology · 2021Article
- Human Papilloma Virus: Current Knowledge and Focus on Oral Health.BioMed research international · 2021Review
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Abstract
High-risk human papillomaviruses (high-risk HPVs) have been recently reported to be co-present with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in different types of human cancers including head and neck (HN), where they can cooperate in the initiation and/or progression of this cancer. Accordingly, we herein explored the prevalence of high-risk HPVs and EBV in 80 HN cancer tissues from the Syrian population using polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, and tissue microarray methodologies. We report that high-risk HPVs and EBV are present in 35/80 (43.7%) and 41/80 (51.2%) of our samples, respectively, and the most frequent HPV types are 33, 16, 18, 45, 52, 58, 35, 51, and 31, in this order. More significantly, our data reveal that 25/80 (31.2%) of cancer cases are positive for high-risk HPVs as well as EBV, and their co-presence is associated with high/intermediate-grade squamous cell carcinomas. These data confirm the co-presence of high-risk HPVs and EBV in HN cancers in the Syrian population of the Middle East and demonstrate that their co-incidence is linked to a more aggressive cancer phenotype. Thus, future studies are required to confirm these data and elucidate the exact role of high-risk and EBV cooperation in human HN carcinogenesis.
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