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. 2017 Apr 4;116(9):1218–1222. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.74

Table 1. invasive scrotal cancers by country, year of/age at diagnosis, histological category, HPV DNA detection and genotyping by 4 assays, HPV histological localization by LCM, HPV16 E6*I mRNA detection, p16INK4a and p53 overexpression.

  Cases studied
  1 2 3 4 5 6
Country of origin Spain Spain Australia Australia Nigeria Nigeria
Year of diagnosis 2003 2008 2002 2007 2007 2015
Age at diagnosis 71 62 59 46 42 66
Histological diagnosis Usual SCC Usual SCC Warty SCC Usual SCC Basaloid SCC Basaloid SCC
HPV DNA and RNA analysis            
 SPF10DEIA-LiPA25 HPV negative HPV negative HPV16 HPV negative HPV 16 HPV 16
 MPTS123-PCR Luminex HPV negative HPV negative HPV 16 HPV negative HPV 16 HPV 16
 Beta HPVs assay HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative
 Cutaneous Wart-Associated HPVs HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative HPV negative
 HPV16 E6*I mRNA-Luminex HPV negative HPV negative Positive HPV negative Positive Positive
 DNA and RNA quality control Positive Positive Positive Positive Positive Positive
Laser capture microdissection            
 Localization of HPV n.a. n.a. SCC n.a. SCC SCC
Immunohistochemistry analysis in primary cancer cells            
 p16INK4a overexpression <5% 25% >75% <5% >75% >75%
 p53 overexpression >75% <25% <25% >75% <25% <25%a

Abbreviations: −=negative; SCC=well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma; n.a.=not applicable.

a

Poor slide quality made difficult the analyses.