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Is nasopharyngeal cancer really a "Cantonese cancer"?

Chinese journal of cancer - 1 May 2010

Wee Joseph Tien Seng, Ha Tam Cam, Loong Susan Li Er, Qian Chao-Nan

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Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is endemic in Southern China, with Guandong province and Hong Kong reporting some of the highest incidences in the world. The journal Science has called it a "Cantonese cancer". We propose that in fact NPC is a cancer that originated in the Bai Yue ("proto Tai Kadai" or "proto Austronesian" or "proto Zhuang") peoples and was transmitted to the Han Chinese in southern China through...

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PMID: 20426903
DOI: 10.5732/cjc.009.10329

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