Analysis of Cell-free Epstein-Barr Virus-associated RNA in the Plasma of Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

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Chen et al. (1) and Nawroz et al. (2) have reported that tumor-derived DNA is detectable in the plasma and serum of cancer patients and have opened up a new molecular approach for the early detection of malignancy. It is not known, however, whether circulating tumor-derived RNA is also present in plasma, because of the lability of RNA. To address this possibility, we used nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) as a model...

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