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e17003 Background: The etiological role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix and larynx is considered proven. At the same time, there are conflicting data in the literature on the role of HPV in the development of bladder cancer (BC). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of HPV infection in patients with BC, identifying the relationship between the status of infection and the morphological characteristics of the tumor. Methods: The study included 46 patients (10 women and 36 men) with morphologically confirmed urothelial cancer. Samples of urine, tumor tissue and a healthy bladder mucosa were examined. HPV DNA was determined by real-time PCR. Results: 28 (60.9%) patients were infected with high-risk HPV, including 6 (60.0%) women and 22 (61.1%) men. In 14 (30.4%) patients, HPV DNA was found in the tissue of the bladder mucosa: in 6 (13.0%) cases it was only in tumor tissue, in 4 (8.7%) only in healthy mucosa, in 4 (8.7%) simultaneously in healthy and tumor tissue. HPV DNA was detected in urine in 22 (47.8%) patients. The simultaneous presence of HPV DNA in the tissue of the bladder mucosa and urine was found in 8 (28.6%) HPV-positive patients. Single HPV infection was found in 20 (71.4%) patients, two types were found in 8 (28.6%). When analyzing type diversity, it was found that HPV16 infected 14 (38.9%) patients; HPV18, 31, 39 and 56 were determined in 4 (11.1%) cases each; 33, 52 and 59 types in 2 (5.6%) cases. Chronic inflammation was noted in 12 (26.1%) patients, 6 (50.0%) of them were HPV-positive. Among HPV-positive patients, invasive cancer was registered in 18 (64.3%), non-invasive cancer in 10 (35.7%) patients. Among HPV-negative patients, these rates were 14 (77.8%) and 4 (22.2%), respectively (p > 0.05). In the group of HPV-positive patients, tumors with a low degree of differentiation were found in 16 (57.1%), moderate in 6 (21.4%), high in 6 (21.4%). Among HPV-negative patients, these indicators were 4 (22.2%), 12 (66.7%) and 2 (11.1%), respectively (p > 0.05). Conclusions: HPV infection was detected in 60.9% of patients, including tumor tissue infection in 21.7% of patients. The most common HPV type was HPV16. There was no statistically significant difference between HPV-positive and negative tumors.

e18055 Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with the development of various cancers, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), gastric cancer, and lymphomas. The use of EBV serological markers in screening and monitoring of NPC has been shown to be valuable. The significance of serological markers in the diagnosis of other head and neck cancers is poorly described. The aim of this study was to analyze the serological profiles of EBV infection in patients with head and neck tumors. Methods: The main group included 24 patients with laryngeal cancer (n = 12) and oral mucosa cancer (n = 12). Keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma was registered in 22 (91.7%) patients, and adenoid cystic cancer in 2 (8.3%) patients. The control group included 44 lymphoma patients. Antibodies to EBV proteins were determined in the blood serum by ELISA and Western blot (WB) tests. Results: ELISA detected antibodies of the A, M and/or G classes against various EBV proteins in 100% of patients in the main group and 97.7% of controls. IgA VCA in patients with head and neck cancer were determined 2.7 times more often (50% vs 18.2%, p = 0.034) than in patients with lymphomas, IgG EA - 2.1 times more often (58.3% vs 27.3%, p = 0.049), and the complex of acute infection markers (IgA VCA, IgM VCA, IgG EA in various combinations) was determined 2.0 times more often (66.7% vs 34.1%, p = 0.045). Atypical profile (only VCA IgG+) was determined only in patients with lymphomas (4.5%). The profile characteristic of immunosuppression (IgG VCA+, IgG EA+, NA IgG±) was determined 1.8 times more often in patients with head and neck cancer than in patients with lymphomas (25% vs 13.6%, p > 0.05). According to WB tests, patients of the main group more often demonstrated IgM EBNA-1p79 (16.7%), VCA p65 (16.7) and p22 (16.7%), while controls – VCA p22 (27.8%), EA-R p93 (16.7%) and VCA p33 (16.7%). IgG in the main group was more often determined to EBNA-1 p79 (91.7%), VCA p22 (91.7%) and VCA p33 (66.7%), in the control group to VCA p40 (87.5%), EBNA-1 p79 (75%) and VCA p22 (62.5%). Statistically significant differences were found only for VCA p42 (0% in the experimental group and 37.5% in controls, p = 0.049), VCA p40 (25% and 87.5%, p = 0.009) and p27 (0% and 37.5%, p = 0.049). EA-D p45 was determined only in patients with lymphoma. Conclusions: The vast majority of patients in both groups were previously infected with EBV. Serological profiles of EBV infection in patients with head and neck cancer and lymphomas were significantly different. Markers of acute infection were more often determined in patients with head and neck cancer; the range of individual proteins in the main group was narrower than in the control group. The biological meaning of the differences in the detection rates of antibodies to individual EBV proteins in patients of the two groups remains to be elucidated.

e17500 Background: Our purpose was to analyze the rates of polymorphic allelic variants of genes of hemostasis system and methionine exchange in patients with female reproductive tumors. Methods: The study included 51 patients with histologically verified gynecologic tumors (group 1), including 28 patients (group 1a) with malignant tumors (cervical cancer (CC) n = 8, ovarian cancer (OC) n = 8, endometrial cancer (EC) n = 8, other cancers n = 4) and 23 patients (group 1b) with benign tumors, and 47 women without tumors (group 2). 12 polymorphic loci were studied by RT-PCR in genomic DNA samples: F2 (G20210А, rs1799963), F5 (G1691A, rs6025), F7 (G10976A, rs6046), F13 (G226A, rs5985), FGB G(-455)A (rs1800790), ITGA2-α2 (C807T, rs1126643), ITGB3-b (Т1565С, rs5918), PAI-1 4G(-675)5G, rs1799889), MTHFR (С677Т, rs 1801133 and A1298C, rs1801131), MTR (А2756G, rs1805087), MTRR (A66G, rs1801394). Groups 1, 1a and 1b were compared with controls (p1) and among themselves (p2). Results: The ratio of genotype frequencies maintained in the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in all gene loci except F7 (G10976A) in group 1 (p = 0.03). An alternative allele in the F2 gene was found only in group 2 (1.1%). The frequency of an alternative allele in the F5 gene in group 1 was 2.9%, including 1a – 1.8%, 1b – 4.3%, group 2 – 2.1%; F7 – 16.7%, 14.3%, 19.6% and 17.0%; F13 – 23.5%, 23.2%, 23.9% and 34%; FGB – 26.5%, 25.0, 28.3% and 25.5%; ITGA2 – 53.9% (p1= 0.03, OR = 1.89 (1.07-3.33), 48.2%, 60.9% (p1= 0.01, OR = 5.21 (1.22-5.17) and 38.3%; ITGB3 – 13.7%, 10.7%, 17.4% and 16.0%; PAI-1 – 47.1% (p1= 0.03, OR = 0.53 (0.30-0.93), 46.4%, 47.8% and 62.8%; MTHFR (Т) – 28.4%, 30.4%, 26.1%, 34.0%; MTHFR (С) – 34.3%, 28.6%, 41.3% (p1= 0.04, OR = 2.17 (1.02-4.61) and 24.5%; MTR – 18.6%, 19.6%, 17.4% and 27.7%; MTRR – 63.7%, 71.4%, 54.3% and 62.8%, respectively. TT genotype at the ITGA2-α2 (C807T) locus was more frequent in group 1 than in group 2 (23.5% vs 19.1%, p1= 0.01, OR = 6.54 (2.61-16.40); CT genotype was more frequent in group 1a than in group 2 (67.9% vs 38.3%, p1= 0.004, OR = 3.40 (1.27-9.13), and more frequent in EC than in group 2 (87.5% vs 38.3%, p1= 0.03, OR = 11.28 (1.28-99.40). GG genotype at the MTRR (A66G) locus was more frequent in group 1a than in group 1b (53.6% vs 26.4%, p2= 0.042). 5G5G genotype at the PAI-1 4G(-675)5G locus was more frequent in group 1 than in group 2 (31.4% vs 10.6%, p1= 0.04, OR = 3.84 (1.28-11.53), and more frequent in OC than in group 2 (75% vs 11%, p1= 0.0001, OR = 25.50 (3.96-160.20). AA genotype at the F7 (G10976A) locus was more frequent in CC patients than in group 2 (31.3% vs 17%, p1= 0.03, OR = 15.33 (1.20-195.75). Conclusions: Carriage of the AA genotype at the F7 (G10976A) locus may increase the risk of developing CC, and the CT genotype at the ITGA2-α2 (C807T) locus may increase the risk of EC. On the contrary, the alternative 4G allele at the PAI-1 4G(-675)5G locus was less common in patients with malignant tumors, especially OC, than in the group without cancer.

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