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9665398

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-7-24
pubmed:abstractText
Psoralen and UVA (PUVA) photochemotherapy is associated with a dose-dependent increased risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer in patients treated for psoriasis. Like ultraviolet B radiation, PUVA is both mutagenic and immunosuppressive and may thus act as a complete carcinogen; however, the reversed squamous to basal cell carcinoma ratio (SCC:BCC) in PUVA-treated patients, also seen in immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients, suggests a possible cofactor role for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. In this study we examine a large series of benign and malignant cutaneous lesions for the presence of HPV DNA from patients treated with high dose (> or =500 J per cm2) ultraviolet A. A panel of degenerate primers based on the L1 (major capsid protein) open reading frame was employed, designed to detect mucosal, cutaneous, and epidermodysplasia verruciformis HPV types with high sensitivity and specificity. HPV DNA was detected in 15 of 20 (75%) non-melanoma skin cancer, seven of 17 (41.2%) dysplastic PUVA keratoses, four of five (80%) skin warts, and four of 12 (33%) PUVA-exposed normal skin samples. The majority of HPV positive lesions contained epidermodysplasia verruciformis-related HPV including HPV-5, -20, -21, -23, -24, and -38. Possible novel epidermodysplasia verruciformis types were identified in further lesions. Mixed infection with epidermodysplasia verruciformis, cutaneous, and/or mucosal types was present in six of 30 (20%) of all HPV positive lesions, including in normal skin, warts, dysplastic PUVA keratoses, and squamous cell carcinomas. The prevalence and type of HPV infection in cutaneous lesions from PUVA-treated patients is similar to that previously reported in renal transplant-associated skin lesions, and suggests that the role of HPV in PUVA-associated carcinogenesis merits further study.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-202X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
111
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
123-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of human papillomavirus DNA in PUVA-associated non-melanoma skin cancers.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Academic Dermatology, Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't