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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 330 |
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Author Reply Re: Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, et al. Association of human papillomavirus in penile cancer: A single-center analysis. Indian J Urol 2022;38:210
Prashant Kumar Sharma, Sridhar Panaiyadiyan, Santosh Kurra, Raman Kumar, Brusabhanu Nayak, Seema Kaushal, Alpana Sharma, Rajeev Kumar, Amlesh Seth, Prabhjot Singh
Department of Urology, Biochemistry and Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
| Date of Submission | 30-Jul-2022 |
| Date of Acceptance | 05-Sep-2022 |
| Date of Web Publication | 1-Oct-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Prabhjot Singh
Department of Urology, Biochemistry and Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/iju.iju_273_22
How to cite this article:
Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, Sharma A, Kumar R, Seth A, Singh P. Author Reply Re: Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, et al. Association of human papillomavirus in penile cancer: A single-center analysis. Indian J Urol 2022;38:210. Indian J Urol 2022;38:330 |
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Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, Sharma A, Kumar R, Seth A, Singh P. Author Reply Re: Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, et al. Association of human papillomavirus in penile cancer: A single-center analysis. Indian J Urol 2022;38:210. Indian J Urol [serial online] 2022 [cited 2022 Dec 1];38:330. Available from: https://www.indianjurol.com/text.asp?2022/38/4/330/357733 |
We appreciate the author's interest in our recently published article on penile carcinoma (PeCa).[1] Regarding the query on telomerase activity in the control group, we did not find any difference in the telomerase activity between high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV)-infected and uninfected controls. Our study findings of higher telomerase activity in PeCa cases, which is insignificant with HPV-positivity status signals, telomerase activity is unaffected by HPV infection once the carcinogenesis sets in. However, the telomerase activity in HPV-affected cancers increases with the severity of the disease.[2] This was evident in the present study as the mean telomerase activity increased with the worsening of the tumor grade.
We also agree with the authors that further studies are warranted focussing on epigenetic alterations such as histone modifications, DNA methylation, and nonencoding RNAs after stratifying to different subtypes of PeCa for a better understanding of the role of HPV in PeCa.
Financial support and sponsorship: Nil.
Conflicts of interest: There are no conflicts of interest.
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| 1. | Sharma PK, Panaiyadiyan S, Kurra S, Kumar R, Nayak B, Kaushal S, et al. Association of human papillomavirus in penile cancer: A single-center analysis. Indian J Urol 2022;38:210.  [Full text] |
| 2. | Katzenellenbogen R. Telomerase induction in HPV infection and oncogenesis. Viruses 2017;9:180. |
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