Affiliation:
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty of Udayana University, Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Indonesia
Abstract
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is caused by interaction of Epstein-Barr virus chronic infection, environtment, and genetic factors. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infect nasopharyngeal ephitelial cell in latent period. This infection will cause mutation and further causing malignancy. This is a cross-sectional study in undifferentiated type NPC patients after hystopatological examination and were examined in RSUP Sanglah Denpasar from January 2017 to December 2018. This study is using 62 subjects who meets inclusion criteria. Univariate analysis was done to show subject characteristics which include age, gender, occupation, clinical stage, gene allele and rs3813865 polymorphism CYP2E1 gene. Mean age of subject is 48.05 years with standard deviation of 10.86 years. The youngest is 17 years old and the oldest is 73 years old. The most are men as many as 47 subjects (75.8%), and the most occupation are government employee as many as 17 subjects (27.4%). The most clinical stage of undifferentiated type NPC are stage II as many as 7 subjects (11.3%). Based on TNM, the most are T4 as many as 32 subjects (51.6%), N3 as many as 21 subjects (33.9%), and M0 as many as 60 subjects (96.8%).
Publisher
Oriental Scientific Publishing Company
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