{"id":14793,"date":"2024-10-04T07:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:33:36","slug":"ebv-screening-tied-to-lower-nasopharyngeal-cancer-mortality-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/ebv-screening-tied-to-lower-nasopharyngeal-cancer-mortality-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"EBV Screening Tied to Lower Nasopharyngeal Cancer Mortality Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Charles Bankhead<\/p>\n<p>Source Medpagetoday<\/p>\n<p>Individuals screened for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection had a significantly lower risk of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) mortality, a large randomized study from China showed.<\/p>\n<p>Screened individuals had a 30% reduction in cancer-specific mortality over a 12-year period versus similar individuals who were not screened, reported Su-Mei Cao, MD, PhD, of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou, China, and co-authors. Patients ages 50 and older derived the greatest benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The findings added to previous evidence that screening improves NPC detection and survival, Cao and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Clinical Oncologyopens in a new tab or window. EBV is a necessary cause for undifferentiated carcinoma, which accounts for approximately 95% of NPCs in endemic regions, they pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/hematologyoncology\/othercancers\/112272\">https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/hematologyoncology\/othercancers\/112272<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Charles Bankhead Source Medpagetoday Individuals screened for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection had a significantly lower risk of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) mortality, a large randomized study from China showed. Screened individuals had a 30% reduction in cancer-specific mortality over a 12-year period versus similar individuals who were not screened, reported Su-Mei Cao, MD, PhD, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,129,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer","category-cancer-pages","category-medical-ethics","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14795,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}