Abstract 2264: Molecular detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus in presence of some oncogenic viruses among Egyptian breast cancer women
Authors: Fattah Nasra F Abdel , Metwally Shimaa A , Loutfy Samah A , Abo-Shadi Maha A , Barakat Ahmed B , Rabee Omar A , Osman Ahmed M , Helal Amany M , Hashem Tarek M , Moneer Manar M 
Published: July 2021

Introduction High risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPVs) has a possible role in development and pathogenesis of breast cancer (BC) disease. Other oncogenic viruses showed to be linked to BC such as Epstein Barr virus (EBV), and Human mammary tumor virus (HMTV). Presence of high risk HPV genotypes, EBV or HMTV could affect the severity course of BC. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to explore distribution of HPV with regards to its genotypes and the presence of EBV and HMTV among Egyptian BC women with its correlation to age and hormonal status.

Patients & Methods This study was conducted on 40 fresh tissues of BC patients and blood samples from 30 apparently healthy controls. All samples were investigated for detection of HPV, EBV and HMTV DNAs using qualitative PCR. Detection of HPV viral load was performed using quantitative real time PCR. HPV genotypes were determined on 10 purified positive PCR product using Sanger sequencing of HPV L1 region. The obtained sequences were compared to the known HPV DNA sequences at National center for biotechnology information (NCBI) and/or Papillomavirus Episteme (Pave) data bases using their online BLAST and taxonomy tools. Data were correlated with age and hormonal status.

Results All the tested 3 oncogenic viruses were not detected into 30 controls. HPV, EBV and HMTV were detected in 20 (50%), 23 (57.5%), 28 (70%) respectively of the 40 BC patients by using PCR assay. HPV median load of the 20 positive samples was 4800 copies/μL. Seven different HPV genotypes were detected included high risk genotypes ((HPV 18 in 3 samples), 70 and 52), low risk genotype (11) detected into only one sample along with 3 other genotypes (102, 114 and 151). One sample showed no significant similarity with any sequence registered in the used databases. Presence of EBV and HMTV DNAs and high risk HPV genotypes was more associated with young age (lower than 50 years), P value = 0.015, 0.001 and 0.05, respectively but were not associated with hormonal status of BC patients.

Conclusion HMTV was the most detected viral DNAs among BC patients, High risk HPVs were identified into 10% of studied Egyptian BC patients and were associated with young age. Further larger sample size study is needed to evaluate role of HPV genotypes on pathogenesis and outcome of BC disease.

STDF Acknowledgment This project was supported financially by the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Egypt, Grant No.22944.

Citation Format: Nasra F Abdel Fattah, Shimaa A Metwally, Samah A Loutfy, Maha A Abo-Shadi, Ahmed B Barakat, Omar A Rabee, Ahmed M Osman, Amany M Helal, Tarek M Hashem, Manar M Moneer. Molecular detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus in presence of some oncogenic viruses among Egyptian breast cancer women [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr 2264.