EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Indian; eskimo*
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare malignancy in most part of the world and it is one of the most confusing, commonly misdiagnosed, and poorly understood disease. NPC has a remarkable racial and geographical distribution. In recent decades, it has attracted world-wide attention because of complex interactions of genetic, viral, environmental and dietary factors, which might be associated with the etiology of this disease. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma has a well-defined geographical distribution, primarily affecting individuals from southern China and South East Asia1. It has been reported to be prevalent in three widely different populations, viz. Chinese in South East Asia, Arabs in North Africa and Eskimos in the Arctic2. In spite of very high incidence of oral cancer in the Indian sub-