Expressão da p16INK4 em lesões precursoras de baixo grau do carcinoma escamoso do colo uterino : estudo prospectivo de seguimento

Abstract

The squamous carcinoma of the cervix uterine is one of the neoplasias of bigger incidence in the whole world, also in Brazil, being responsible for the death of thousand of women to each year, great part of them occurring in full productive age. Throughout last the fifty years, diverse researchers have studied this neoplasia. We know that the invading phase of the squamous carcinoma of the cervix uterine is preceded by an intra-epithelial phase, precursory (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia - CIN). The precursory injuries can be divided in two great groups: of low degree and of high degree (Bethesda System). If on the other hand, the percentage of injuries of high degree that evolve for invading squamous carcinoma is great, on the other hand, a small parcel of women whom they have precursory injuries of low degree only goes to develop an invading injury. However, not yet we are capable to identify between these women, which are the ones that will go to progress for squamous carcinoma of the cervix uterine. The present study it looked for to evaluate the expression of p16INK4 in patients with injury of low degree of the uterine col, correlating with the presence of HPV-DNA and its evolution throughout the time. The study it folloied 118 patients for a maximum period of 33 months, examining them with intervals of 6 months. The conclusion was that p16INK4 if related positively with multiple infection for HPV and that in these patients the expression of the same one arrives the 100% of neoplastic cells stained. Some patients developed high lesion in a short period of time (several months).