HPV and lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lung cancer has emerged as a global public health problem and is the most common cause of cancer deaths by absolute cases globally. Besides tobacco, smoke infectious diseases such as human papillomavirus (HPV) might be involved in the pathogenesis of lung cancer. However, data are inconsistent due to differences in study design and HPV detection methods.

Aim

A systematic meta-analysis was performed to examine the presence of HPV-infection with lung cancer.

Methods and results

All studies in all languages were considered for the search concepts "lung cancer" and "HPV" if data specific to HPV prevalence in lung cancer tissue were given. This included Journal articles as well as abstracts and conference reports. As detection method, only HPV PCR results from f

SUBMITTER: Karnosky J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8388180 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature