nasopharyngeal carcinoma

lymphoid cancer called Burkitt lymphoma; nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a cancer of the nasal sinuses and throat that is common in southern China, Southeast Asia, and northern Africa and among the Inuit; and certain neurological illnesses, including encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and paralyses of various nerve groups (for example, Bell palsy,…

…drugs in organ transplantation; (3) nasopharyngeal carcinoma; and (4) some kinds of Hodgkin disease. EBV infects B lymphocytes, one of the principal infection-fighting white blood cells of the immune system. It does not replicate within the B cells; instead, it transforms them into lymphoblasts, which have an indefinite life span.…

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a cancer found at the extreme back of the nasal cavity, near the juncture with the throat. It arises commonly in males and spreads rapidly to the lymphatic nodes in the neck. It spreads under the surface mucous membrane without ulceration of…