Cervical transformation in alcohol abuse patients

Abstract

Patients with alcohol consumption have unclear risk of developing cervical cancer. The purpose of our work was detection of cervical neoplastic transformation in women with alcohol abuse. We investigated 13 cases of cervical neoplastic transformation (5 cases of invasive carcinoma and 8 case of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)) which where detected occasionally during autopsy of alcohol abuse women. Microscopic investigation with immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed indirect to Ki-67, p16. There are some peculiarities in development of cervical cancer in women with alcohol consumption. Level of cellular proliferation is significantly higher with positive staining Ki67 ranged from 29.1% to 89.7% in alcohol abuse group despite ranged from 27.41% to 75.3% in comparison group depend of transformation stage. Simultaneously, positive staining p16 was ranged from 26.2% to 94.8 % in alcohol abuse group despite ranged from 16.1% to 93.7% in comparison group. Diffuse staining with p16, specific gravity of cells with positive IHC reaction with this protein and high reaction intensity can be used as a specific and sensitive method for detecting CIN III and invasive carcinoma in alcohol abuse.