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Avaliação da expressão da proteína twist em amostras de carcinoma epidermóide bucal e sua correlação com aspectos clínico-patológicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014) ABREU, Michelle Carvalho; PONTES, Hélder Antônio Rebelo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8076555757131891; KHAYAT, André Salim; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6305099258051586
Among the malignant neoplasms that occur in the mouth, 95% are represented by oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc). in brazil, the estimates for the 2014, according to the inca point more than 15,290 new cases. these data show that the oscc represents a public health problem because of the morbidity away a large numbers of patients from de work, and weigh the cost of health care in the state, due the days of hospitalization and the treatment applied. the pathogenesis of the oscc is related to genetic factors as well as chemical agents, such as tobacco and alcohol, physical and biological agents considered carcinogenic. the transcription factor twist was recently appointed as an important regulator of emt during tumor progression and metastasis and has become an important diagnostic and prognostic marker for patients due to the fact its positive upregulation and methylation of the gene are being implicated in several cancers. although many studies provide important insights into understanding the biology of malignant tumors as well as genes involved in emt, twist mechanisms in tumorigenesis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in oral squamous cell carcinoma remain to be elucidated. in this study we investigated the pattern of expression of twist protein by immunohistochemical technique in 59 oscc samples from patients from the national health system of the state of pará and evaluated the possible association of the results with clinical and pathologic features survival of patients.the results showed a statistically significant association between alcohol consumption and the most sites affected by the oscc, suggesting that ethanol may play a potentiating role of tobacco agents in sites that receive greater exposure of these substances. the expression of twist protein also showed a decrease in average survival of individuals. despite this decline have not shown statistical significance in our studies, we believe that it should be more widely studied, aiming at a better understanding of its role in oral squamous cell carcinoma. the positivity of protein labeling demonstrated relationship to smoking, where 87.8% of smoking patients showed positive staining for protein, corroborating the fact that smoking can modulate the expression of emt markers including twist. in summary, the results of this study show some intriguing correlations, which in our opinion deserve special attention in order to be clarified. as the intracellular localization of the protein observed in this study, is probably related to some oncogenic process is not described
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Correlação entre o câncer bucal e de laringe e a presença do Papilomavírus Humano (HPV) e do vírus Epstein-Barr (EBV) no estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013) ARAÚJO, Marizeli Viana de Aragão; FUZII, Hellen Thais; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0026958665547973; SOUSA, Rita Catarina Medeiros; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3560941703812539
The oral and laryngeal cancer represents a growing public health problem in Brazil. Smoking and alcohol are the main causes of oral cancer and larynx, but a part of the population develops the disease without being exposed to these risk factors, suggesting the existence of other causes such as genetic predisposition, alteration of tumor suppressor genes, diet and viral agents, particularly human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The proposition of this study was to verify prevalence of HPV and EBV in normal oral mucosa, cancer of oral cavity and larynx, and what types are most prevalent in these two situations. For this study we established two groups: one consisting of 70 specimens embedded in paraffin, with a confirmed diagnosis of oral and larynx cancer and other with 166 individuals without lesions in the oral cavity. Laboratory analysis for the viral detection and typing HPV and EBV (EBV type 1 or 2) were performed by conventional PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The typing of samples positive for HPV types (6, 11, 16, 18, 33, 35, 38, 52 and 58) was performed by real time PCR using probes specific for each type. The EBV and HPV prevalence found in the oral and laryngeal cancers was 78.6% for HPV and 84.3% for EBV and 24.1% and 45.8% for EBV and HPV, respectively, in individuals without oral lesions. The most prevalent HPV types were HPV 58 (50.9%), HPV 6 (9.1%) and HPV 16 (9.1%) in cancer group and HPV 18 (12.5%), HPV 6 (7.5 %) and HPV 58 (2.5%) in the group with no lesions. The EBV 2 was more prevalent in both the cancer lesions than subjects without lesions, with a frequency of 94.9% and 82.9%, respectively. There was no association of HPV infection with EBV and sex, the prevalence being similar for men and women. Association was observed between the prevalence of HPV and EBV and its co-infections with the group that developed cancer. The prevalence of HPV and EBV and the odds ratio in the occurrence of cancer was 8.86 (p <0.0001) in individuals infected with HPV and 4.08 (p = 0.0004) in patients infected by EBV. The probability value estimated for prevalence of HPV and EBV co-infection and the occurrence of cancer has shown that individuals infected by both viruses have 65.72% likelihood of developing cancer, while infected with HPV has 31.94% and infected with EBV 17.79%. The results of this study may suggest that viral agents (HPV and EBV) are important risk factors for the development of carcinogenesis, and HPV is more effective than EBV in triggering the disease.
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Perfil nutricional de pacientes com carcinoma de células escamosas e lesões potencialmente malignas de boca e orofaringe atendidos em um serviço de referência no município de Belém-PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-12-10) COSTA, Lilian Pereira da Silva; ARAÚJO, Marília de Souza; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9371703949781020
Oral cancer presents the fifth incidence among men in Brazil. Potentially malignant disorders represent an early stage oral cancer. The aim this work was to investigate the nutritional status of patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and potentially malignant disorders from mouth and oropharynx treated at a reference center in Belém city. Thus, it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. The sample consisted of 41 participants, 58.5% male, average 60.3 years old, 43.9% with potentially malignant disorders (leukoplakia or actinic cheilitis), and 56.1% with SCC. The predominant localization was in mouth. Most (63.4%) of participants lived in Belém and metropolitan area, 65.9% with family income up to 2 minimum wages, 51.2% with more than 8 years of schooling, 53.7% smoke or have smoked regularly 75.6% eat or drank alcoholic beverages daily, 65.9% reported moderate/intense sun exposure. Regarding nutritional status, the total sample, according to the body mass index (BMI), 41.5% were normal weight, 14.6% underweight and 43.9% overweight/obesity. With respect to the adequacy of the Usual Weight (UW), 70.7% were eutrophic. As the adequacy of the arm circumference (AC), 48.8% were normal weight, 46.5% malnutrition. The assessment of the adequacy of the triceps skinfold (TSF), 39.0% were malnutrition, 36.6% overweight/obesity, 24.4% eutrophic. Considering the adequacy of arm muscle circumference (AMC), 51.2% were eutrophic, 48.8% undernourished. According to the muscle area corrected arm (MACA), 53.7% were malnutrition. Considering the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), 87.8% were well nourished. When analyzed for the presence or absence of malnutrition using different methods, comparing the groups, it was found that BMI, adequacy of UW, adequacy of CB, MACA and ASG showed statistically significant results (p<0.05). Regarding eating habits, the population evaluated presented low consumption of fruits, vegetables, main dietary protective factors, constituting food inadequacy both for patients with potentially malignant disorders and for SCC. Therefore, the group of potentially malignant disorders presented for all methods of evaluation used predominantly eutrophic. Among the methods that evaluated the muscle and fat reserves, MACA showed the highest percentage of individuals with malnutrition, with higher values in the group with SCC. A comparison of the nutritional status between the two groups of lesions can be seen higher percentage of malnutrition among patients with SCC, considering the different anthropometric methods.
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Significado da expressão de p16INK4A e da perda de heterozigosidade do gene PTEN no carcinoma epidermóide bucal relacionado ao papilomavírus humano
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-06) KATO, Valdenira de Jesus Oliveira; ALCÂNTARA, Diego Di Felipe Ávila; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1794240697748468; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5045-2265; BURBANO, Rommel Mario Rodríguez; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4362051219348099; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4872-234X
The p16 and PTEN genes are part of the family of tumor suppressor genes commonly associated with the inactivation of a variety of human cancers. The loss of its expression has been studied worldwide in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). In this study, we evaluated the hypothesis that p16 cooperates with inactive PTEN during OSCC pathogenesis, especially in tumor aggressiveness and proliferation. For that, 119 OSCC samples were used in which the relationship between HPV infection, p16 expression and PTEN mutations were evaluated throug himmunohistochemistry (IHC), western blot, immunofluorescence and sequencing techniques. The results of this study demonstrated that PTEN has high positivity in patients with more advanced tumor size (p < 0.01) and lymph node metastasis (p = 0.02). Statistical analysis showed that p16 expression was strongly associated with the presence of HPV (p<0.0001), but that its aberrant expression is not related to altered PTEN (p=0.52). It was also observed that 60% of the samples in stage IV (advanced stage of the tumor) were statistically associated with the presence of mutation. It is concluded that PTEN and p16 are suppressor genes that control tumor progression. In the current study, PTEN showed great erreactivity in advanced stages of the disease (greater than seven times). p16 was strongly associated with HPV, but did not show a significant association with any clinical-pathological factor analyzed. Both proteins are of great importance in the prognosis of patients. Viral presence has been shown to decrease tumor aggressiveness. Lesions in advanced stages have a shorter survival, in addition, the presence of mutation was more commonly observed in advanced stages of the disease. It was observed that smoking patients witht he absenceof p16 are significantly associated with a survival rate twice as low.