The presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) was evaluated in 65 samples
of prostate tumours and six samples of prostates with benign prostatic
hyperplasia from individuals from Northern Brazil. We used a highly
sensitive test, the Linear Array HPV Genotyping Test, to detect 37 high
and low-risk HPV types. In this study, only 3% of tumour samples showed
HPV infection. Our findings support the conclusion that, despite the
high incidence of HPV infection in the geographic regions studied, HPV
was not associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer. To our
knowledge, this is the first study evaluating the frequency of HPV
detection in prostatic tissue of individuals from Brazil