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. 2020 May;8(10):650. doi: 10.21037/atm-19-2756

Table 1. Worldwide HPV prevalence in breast tumour and adjacent normal breast tissue.

Country Breast tumour Adjacent normal breast Tissue preservation type Methods of detection
Benign Malignant
HPV (%) HPV (%) HPV16 (%) HPV18 (%) HPV33 (%) Other HPV (%) HPV (%)
China [Yu et al. 1999] (11) 1/20, 5.0 18/52, 34.6 1/52, 1.9 0/52, 0.0 PET PCR/Southern
China [Yu et al. 2000] (12) 4/72, 5.0 14/32, 43.8 14/32, 43.8 PET PCR/Southern
USA [de Villiers et al. 2004] (8) 25/29, 86.2 3/29, 10.3 0/29. 0.0 0/29,0.0 12/25, 48.0 PET PCR/In-situ
Brazil [Damin et al. 2004] (13) 0/41, 0.0 25/101, 24.7 14/101, 13.8 10/101, 9.9 PET PCR/Seq
Turkey [Gumus et al. 2006] (14) 37/50, 74.0 20/50, 40.0 35/50, 70.0 16/50, 32.0 CPT PCR
Greece [Kroupis et al. 2006] (15) 17/107, 15.9 14/17, 67.0 7/17, 41.1 CPT PCR
Korea [Choi et al. 2007] (16) 8/123, 6.5 0/31, 0.0 PET PCR/Chip
China [Tsai et al. 2005] (17) 8/62, 12.9 8\62 12.9 CPT PCR/Southern
Japan [Khan et al. 2008] (18) 26/124, 20.9 24/26, 92.3 3/124, 2.4 1/124, 0.8 0/11. 0.0 PET PCR
Mexico [de León DC et al. 2009] (19) 15/51, 29.4 10/51, 19.6 3/51, 5.8 0/43. 0.0 PET PCR
Australia [Heng et al. 2009] (20) 1/26, 3.8 PET PCR/In-situ
China [He et al. 2009] (21) 24/40, 60.0 1/20. 5.0 CPT PCR
Mexico [Mendizabal-Ruiz et al. 2009] (22) 3/67, 4.4 0/40, 0.0 PET PCR
Mexico [Herrera-Goepfert et al. 2011] (23) 6/60, 10.0 6/60, 10.0 7/60, 11.6 PET PCR
China [Mou et al. 2011] (24) 4/62, 6.4 3/62, 4.8 1/62, 1.6 0/46, 0.0 CPT PCR
Italy [Frega et al. 2012] (25) 9/31, 29.0 0/12 PET INNO-Lipa HPV
Australia [Glenn et al. 2012] (26) 25/50, 50.0 25/50, 50.0 8/40, 20.0 CPT PCR
Iran [Sigaroodi et al. 2012] (27) 15/58, 25.8 4/79, 5.0 4/79, 5.0 1/41, 2.4 PET PCR/Seq
China [Liang et al. 2013] (28) 48/224, 21.4 6/37, 16.2 Lump HC2
China [Wang et al. 2014] (29) 2/2, 100.0 7/7,100.0 CPT HC/seq
Iraq [Ali et al. 2014] (30) 60/129, 46.5 33/129, 25.5 35/129, 27.1 16/129, 12.4 3/44, 6.8 PET In-situ
Iran [Ahangar-Oskouee et al. 2014] (31) 22/65, 33.8 1/65, 1.5 0/65, 0.0 PET PCR/Seq
Iran [Manzouri et al. 2014] (32) 10/55, 18.1 2/55, 3.6 1/55, 1.8 1/55, 1.8 7/51, 13.7 PET PCR
China [Peng et al. 2014] (33) 2/100, 2.0 2/100, 2.0 0/50, 0.0 CPT MS-PCR
China [Fu et al. 2015] (34) 25/169, 14.7 1/83, 1.2 PET PCR
China [Li et al. 2015] (7) 3/187, 1.6 0/92, 0.0 PET PCR/Seq
Australia [Lawson et al. 2015] (35) 29/40, 72.5 29/40, 72.5 4/40, 10.0 22/40, 55.0 8/40, 20.0 6/20, 30.0 PET PCR/Seq
Australia [Ngan et al. 2015] (36) 23/31, 74.1 24/31, 77.4 3/31, 9.6 21/31, 67.7 4/31, 12.9 PET PCR/Seq
UK [Salman et al. 2017] (37) 6/36, 16.6 35/74, 47.2 7/35, 20.0 8/35, 22.8 3/35, 8.5 25/35, 71.4 CPT PCR/Seq
India [Islam et al. 2017] (38) 5/7, 71 203/213, 64.8 120/174, 69 61/174, 35.0 5/174, 2.9 2/21, 9.5 CPT PCR/Southern
Spain [Delgado-García et al. 2017] (39) 130/251, 51.8 49/186. 26.3 PET PCR
Iran [Khodabandehlou et al. 2019] (40) 35/72, 48.6 – – 5/36, 16.1 CPT PCR
UK [Wrede et al. 1992] (41) 0/80, 0.0 0/80, 0.0 0/80, 0.0 0/80, 0.0 PET PCR
USA [Bratthauer et al. 1992] (42) 0/13, 0.0 0/13, 0.0 0/13, 0.0 0/13, 0.0 0/13, 0.0 0/15, 0.0 PET PCR
India [Gopalkrishna et al. 1996] (43) 0/25, 0.0 0/25, 0.0 0/25, 0.0 0/5, 0.0 FNAC PCR
Switzerland [Lindel et al. 2007] (44) 0/81, 0.0 0/81, 0.0 0/81, 0.0 0/81, 0.0 0/81, 0.0 PET PCR
France [de Cremoux et al. 2008] (45) 0/50, 0.0 0/50, 0.0 0/50, 0.0 0/50, 0.0 0/50, 0.0 CPT PCR
China [Chang et al. 2012] (46) 0/48, 0.0 3/30, 10.0 PET PCR

PCR, polymerase chain reaction; PCR/Seq, polymerase chain reaction followed by sequencing; PCR/southern, polymerase chain reaction followed by Southern blot; PCR/in-situ, PCR followed by in-situ hybridisation; MS-PCR, mutagenically separated PCR; HC2, hybrid capture 2; PET, paraffin-embedment tissue; CPT, cryo preserve tissue.