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Clinical Oncology/Epidemiology

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: an EBV-associated tumour not significantly influenced by HIV-induced immunosuppression

British Journal of Cancer volume 73, pages 995–997 (1996)Cite this article

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We used a link between cancer (859,398 reports) and AIDS (50,050 reports) registries in the United States to study whether nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was increased in the population with AIDS. There was no indication of a significantly increased risk up to or after the AIDS diagnosis, which argues against progressively failing immunity being important in the development of this malignancy.

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  1. M Melbye, TR Coté, D West, L Kessler and RJ Biggar: Members of the AIDS/Cancer Working Group (for each city or state, the first member listed is from the AIDS-registry and the secondfrom the cancer registry. San Francisco (G Lemp, D West); California (J Singleton, J Young); Los Angeles (P Kerndt, D Deapen); San Diego (M Ginzberg, H Anton-Culver); Florida (S Lieb, R Hopkins); Georgia (B Williams, J Lif); New Jersey (D Morgan, W Parkin).

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Melbye, M., Coté, T., West, D. et al. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: an EBV-associated tumour not significantly influenced by HIV-induced immunosuppression. Br J Cancer 73, 995–997 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1996.194

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