Assessment of human papilloma virus in non-small cell lung cancer in never-smokers: A study from a prospective registry of never-smokers.

e18126 Background: Driver mutations have been identified in most non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) from never-smokers. However, a small percentage of the tumors still have no its mutations detected. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been hypothesized to contribute to lung carcinogenesis in East Asia. Methods: We started a prospective registry of never-smokers with NSCLC at the Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, Japan, in 2008. We consecutively enrolled all the never-smokers after obtaining written informed consent. Among these, we selected the 114 patients treated with surgery to obtain a large amount of DNA. After exclusion of samples with suboptimal quality, DNA was extracted from 93 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded surgical tissues. HPV genotyping was performed using a PCR-based microarray system for detecting 23 HPV types, including high-risk (HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, and 68) and low-risk or risk-unknown types (HPV types 6, 11, 30, 34, 40, 42, 53, 54, 61, and 66). Epiderm...