Abstract:
Objective To explore the progression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade Ⅰ (CIN1) in a population with different cytological results, oncogene P16INK4A expression reflected by immunohistochemical staining, and human papilloma virus (HPV) infection status.
Methods The long-term follow-up data of 149 young patients with CIN1 confirmed by initial cervical pathological biopsy from 2008 to 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Using CIN2+ as the study endpoint, cumulative incidence and mean survival time of CIN2+ were calculated by Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, variability in survival time between groups with different test results were compared by the Log Rank test, and risk ratios of cytologic screening results, tissue P16INK4A expression, and HPV infection status for progression to CIN2+ were calculated by Cox regression.
Results The median follow-up period of the 149 CIN1 cases was 68 months, with a total of 16 progressed to CIN2+ at the end of follow-up, and the cumulative incidence of CIN2+ was 10.74%. The risk of progression in women with atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous inteaepithel-ial lesion (ASC-H)/highgrade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL)/atypical glandular cells(AGC) was 3.04 times (95% CI: 1.06 − 8.76, P = 0.04) higher than that in women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance(ASC-US)/low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) (95% CI: 1.06 − 8.76, P = 0.04). The cumulative incidence of CIN2+ in women with positive tissue P16INK4A diffuse staining was 14.00%, and its progression was 1.70 times (95% CI: 0.63 − 4.58, P = 0.29) higher than that of women with negative P16INK4A diffuse staining. The cumulative incidence of CIN2+ in women with HPV-16/18 infections, HPV-31/33/45/52/58 infections, and infections with other high-risk HPV types were 34.78%, 9.84%, and 2.63%, respectively, with a risk of progression being 12.70 (95%CI: 1.58 − 102.16, P = 0.02), 2.96 (95% CI: 0.36 − 24.60, P = 0.32) and 0.82(95% CI: 0.05 − 13.05, P = 0.89) times higher than that of high-risk HPV negative women.When HPV infection status and tissue P16INK4A staining results were jointly analyzed, it was found that the risk of progression to CIN2+ among women with HPV-16/18 infection and positive concomitant P16INK4A diffuse staining was 14.43 times (95% CI: 1.60 − 130.49, P = 0.02) higher than that of women with high-risk HPV infection and negative concomitant P16INK4A diffuse staining simultaneously.
Conclusion Cytological screening results and HPV-16/18 testing are closely associated with CIN1 progression, while the feasibility of tissue P16INK4A staining as a reference indicator for CIN1 progression needs further to be studied.