To determine the frequency of human papilloma virus (HPV) in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. A descriptive, cross-sectional method was adopted and the study was conducted in the histopathology department of Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan, from January to June 2017, and included patients with Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Non-probability consecutive sampling technique was used. SPSS v.22 was used for data analysis. Out of 121 patients, 67(55.37%) were male and 54(44.62%) were female. The overall mean age was 50±1.72 years. Most of the patients were in the age group of over 50 years and only 12% were in the age group below 40 years. In our study patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinma, human papillomavirus was found in 3%.
Keywords: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), Human papilloma virus (HPV), Oesophageal cancer..