Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To explore the values of serum microribonucleic acid (miR) -18a, miR-34a-5p and miR-195 in diagnosis of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the cervical cancer patients.
METHODS Totally 77 cervical cancer patients with high-risk HPV infection who were treated in Huaihe Hospital, Henan University from Jan. 2022 to Jul. 2023 were assigned as the study group. Meanwhile, 79 high-risk HPV-positive patients who had cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions were chosen as the control group. The levels of miR-18a, miR-34a-5p amd miR-195 were compared between the two groups. The levels of miR-18a, miR-34a-5p and miR-195 were compared between the IL-17 methylation-positive patients and the IL-17 methylation-negative patients. The predictive values of the three indexes were analyzed, and the short-term curative effect of the different state of IL-17 methylation was observed.
RESULTS The serum miR-18a level of the study group was higher than that of the control group(P < 0.05), while the levels of miR-34a-5p and miR-195 of the study group was lower than those of the control group(P < 0.05). In the study group, the levels of miR-34a-5p and miR-195 of the patients with lymphatic metastasis were lower than those of the patients without lymphatic metastasis(P < 0.05), while the miR-18a level of the patients with lymphatic metastasis was higher than that of the patients without lymphatic metastasis(P < 0.05); the miR-18a level of the patients with stage Ⅲ of pathological stage was higher than that of the patients with the pathological stage ranging between Ⅰ and Ⅱ (P < 0.05).The area under curve (AUC) of the joint detection of the three indexes was higher than that of the single detection in diagnosis of the cervical cancer patients with high-risk HPV infection(P < 0.05), the sensitivity was 81.80%, with the specificity 83.50%.
CONCLUSIONS The cervical cancer patient with high-risk HPV infection show high expression of serum miR-18a and the low expressions of miR-34a-5p and miR-195. The joint detection of the indexes may facilitate the diagnosis of the cervical cancer patients with high-risk HPV infection. There is association between the three indexes and the characteristics of the HPV-positive cervical cancer patients.