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. 2019 Oct;71(Suppl 1):522-527.
doi: 10.1007/s12070-018-1378-4. Epub 2018 Apr 30.

Serum Adenosine Deaminase Levels and Human Papillomavirus as Prognostic and Predictive Factors for Laryngeal and Pharyngeal Carcinomas

C Chandrakiran  1 , Thanu Jogy  1 , Sanjay B Patil  1
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Serum Adenosine Deaminase Levels and Human Papillomavirus as Prognostic and Predictive Factors for Laryngeal and Pharyngeal Carcinomas

C Chandrakiran et al. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

Head and neck cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, accounting for up to 30-40% malignancies in India. Research is always on the lookout for parameters that help in early diagnosis of such disease and to explore the possibility of discovering such parameters that would assist in management of the disease by its potential to predict and prognosticate the disease. To estimate serum ADA levels and to correlate with response to therapy and also to correlate between different clinical stages and serum ADA levels and to correlate HPV status to response to therapy. A prospective cohort study. 30 patients who were diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx, hypopharynx and larynx were considered in this study. The pre and post treatment values of serum ADA was estimated in these patients and the tumour was assessed for HPV status. The difference in the in the serum ADA levels before and after treatment was 9.982 which was statistically significant with a p value of < 0.001. HPV positive status and response to therapy in the form of recurrence shows a p value of 0.485 which is not statistically significant. Serum ADA level can be used as a parameter to assess the severity of the disease and the response to treatment in cases of carcinoma of the oropharynx, hypopharynx and larynx. HPV status of the disease has its limitation in prediction and prognosis of the disease.

Keywords: HPV; Hypopharynx; Larynx; Oropharynx; Serum ADA; Squamous cell carcinoma.

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Immunohistochemistry staining of HPV P16 in laryngeal tissue
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Site distribution of patients studied in relation to HPV positivity
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Serum ADA distribution: assessment before and after treatment
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HPE findings of patients
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