title: Epstein-Barr Virus antibodies in patients with carcinoma of the nasopharynx and carcinoma of other sites in the head and neck.
abstract: Serum antibody titers to Epstein-Barr virus were significantly elevated in a group of twenty-three patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma as compared with eighty-six patients with cancer of other sites in the head and neck and 222 age-matched controls. Our findings in this group of patients support the suggestion of an association between the Epstein-Barr virus and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral