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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2023 Apr 9;129(15):2373–2384. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34783

Table 2.

Prevalence of oncogenic^ HPV biomarkers overall and by eligibility group&

Biomarker N (%)

All participants N=1108 History of anogenital dysplasia/ cancer N=72 Partner of HPV related cancer case N=94 Men 30 years and older with 2 or more lifetime oral sex partners N=942 P-value~

ORAL RINSE : Number tested N=1105 N=72 N=94 N=939
 Any oncogenic HPV DNA 81* (7.3) 6 (8.3) 6 (6.4) 69 (7.4) 0.89
   HPV16 DNA (by DEIA/LiPA or Cobas) 20 (1.8) 1 (1.4) 1 (1.1) 18 (1.9) 0.81
   Any other oncogenic HPV DNA (by DEIA/LiPA or Cobas) 67 (6.1) 5 (6.9) 5 (5.3) 57 (6.1) 0.91
  HPV 18 DNA (by DEIA/LiPA) 7 (0.6) 2 (2.8) 0 5 (0.5) 0.11
  HPV 31 DNA (by DEIA/LiPA) 7 (0.6) 1 (1.4) 1 (1.1) 5 (0.5) 0.28
  HPV 33 DNA (by DEIA/LiPA) 6 (0.5) 2 (2.8) 0 4 (0.4) 0.08
  HPV 51 DNA (by DEIA/LiPA) 15 (1.4) 1 (1.4) 1 (1.1) 13 (1.4) 0.97
 Any oncogenic HPV RNA (by Aptima)o 20 (1.8) 3 (4.2) 0 17 (1.8) 0.13
 Any oncogenic HPV DNA or RNA 86 (7.8) 7 (9.7) 6 (6.4) 73 (7.7) 0.73

SERUM ANTIBODIES: Number tested N=997 N=63 N=83 N=851
 Any oncogenic HPV E6 or E7# antibodies 179* (22.9) 12 (25.5) 11 (18.3) 156 (23.2) 0.63
  HPV16 E6 or E7 77 (7.7) 7 (11.1) 6 (7.2) 64 (7.5) 0.58
  Other oncogenic HPV E6 or E7# 119 (15.7) 7 (15.6) 7 (12.1) 105 (16.0) 0.73

 HPV16
  HPV16 E6 22 (2.2) 2 (3.2) 2 (2.4) 18 (2.1) 0.85
  HPV16 E7 57 (5.7) 6 (9.5) 4 (4.8) 47 (5.5) 0.39
  HPV16: ≥3 of: E1, E2, E6, E7 2 (0.2) 0 0 2 (0.24) 0.99

 Other oncogenic HPV types
  Other oncogenic HPV E6 70 (7.0) 2 (3.2) 6 (7.2) 62 (7.3) 0.47
  Other oncogenic HPV E7# 59 (8.1) 5 (11.4) 1 (1.8) 53 (8.5) 0.15

ELIGIBLE FOR AT-RISK COHORT
 Any oncogenic HPV: oral HPV DNA/RNA or serum E6 or E7 antibodies 248 (22.4) 18 (25.0) 15 (16.0) 215 (22.8) 0.27
^

Oncogenic HPV strains were defined to include types 16,18,31,33,35,45,52, 58 (both serum and oral rinse), and types 39,51,56,59,66, 68 (tested in oral rinse only)

&

Eligibility group categories were made mutually exclusive for this table, using the following hierarchy for participants reporting multiple categories: History of anogenital dysplasia/cancer, partner of HPV related cancer case, men ≥30 years with ≥ 2 lifetime oral sex partners

o

This row excludes 3 samples with invalid results, thereby bringing total rinse samples with Aptima testing to N=1102

#

Excludes a subset of non-16 oncogenic HPV E7 results from one batch of test results, which were set to missing due to higher-than-expected prevalence.

~

P-value tested with chi square test for categorical variables. When any biomarker categories had <10 participants positive, Fishers exact tests used.

*

These include people that can be positive for either or both of the two rows listed below; as they are not counted twice here the total does not equal the sum of rows below