One hundred ten cervical specimens, which were collected from patients with various kinds of uterine cervix disease that was subsequently diagnosed as chronic cervicitis and with examination results negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (NILM, n = 23), mild dysplasia (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia type 1 [CIN1], n = 37), moderate dysplasia (CIN2, n = 12), severe dysplasia (CIN3, n = 10), and squamous cell carcinoma (SCA, n = 28) confirmed by histologic diagnosis, were analyzed for the proportion of abnormal cells with TERC gain using a commercially available 2-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probe.
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Squamous cell carcinoma