Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a unique tumour which is endemic in Southern China including Hong Kong. While the treatment results for early disease are encouraging, patients with advanced cancer are uniformly associated with poor prognosis. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the first virus related to the development of human malignancy, plays an important role in the carcinogenesis of the disease. Over the past decades, researchers have been trying to identify EBV associated biomarkers which allows early diagnosis as well as accurate monitoring of treatment response. With the development of real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, plasma EBV DNA has been studied with much enthusiasms for its potential role in the management of patients with NPC. Since then, numerous reports have been published regarding the applications of plasma EBV-DNA for early diagnosis, monitoring of treatment response after radiotherapy or surgery, and as a prognosticator predicting oncological results after curative therapy for primary disease or palliative treatments for patients with recurrent/metastatic cancer. On-going studies are performed to investigate its potential use in the screening of at-risk populations in the endemic geographic regions. In the future, it may allow pre-treatment risk stratification for individual patients, so that personalization of treatment protocols can be achieved with potentially better oncological outcome. Citation: Wai Chan JY, Sze Wong ST (2013) The Role of Plasma Epstein – Barr Virus DNA in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. J Mol Biomark Diagn S5: 004. doi:10.4172/2155-9929.S5-004
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