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ReviewChinese journal of cancer2011

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the Northeastern states of India.

Amal Chandra Kataki, Malcolm J Simons, Ashok Kumar Das, Kalpana Sharma, Narinder Kumar Mehra

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Review in Chinese journal of cancer, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Salvage Endoscopic Nasopharyngectomy for Locally Recurrent T1 and T2 Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023
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  6. Clinical Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treated with Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy: First Experience Report from Northeast India.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022
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  8. Beyond cancer: a reflection on the narratives of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients in Nagaland.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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  13. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A 15 Year Study with Respect to Clinicodemography and Survival Analysis.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2016
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  15. Study of single nucleotide polymorphisms of tumour necrosis factors and HSP genes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma in North East India.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2016
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  17. Contribution of susceptibility locus at HLA class I region and environmental factors to occurrence of nasopharyngeal cancer in Northeast India.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Amal Chandra KatakiRegional Institute for Cancer Treatment & Research, Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati, Assam 781016, India. dramalchkataki@yahoo.com
Malcolm J Simons
Ashok Kumar Das
Kalpana Sharma
Narinder Kumar Mehra

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is a rare disease in most parts of the world, except for Southeast Asia, some parts of North Africa and the Arctic. It is mostly seen in people of Chinese origin. In India, NPC is also rare, except for the Hill States of Northeast India, particularly Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram. The striking feature of NPC in Northeast India is that the incidence ranges over the complete spectrum from the lowest (as 0.5/100 000 to 2.0/100 000 among Caucasoid) to the highest (as about 20/100 000 among Cantonese/Zhongshan dialect Chinese). The age-adjusted rate of NPC in Kohima district of Nagaland State is 19.4/100 000, which is among the highest recorded rates. By contrast, in Assam, one of the so-called Hill States but not itself a hilly state, NPC is much less common. The Northeastern region is distinguished by a preponderance of the Tibeto-Burman languages and by variable mongoloid features among peoples of the region. The nature of the migratory populations who are presumed to be bearers of the mongoloid risk is unknown, but these NPC occurrence features provide an outstanding opportunity for NPC risk investigation, such as that of the hypothesis of Wee et al. for westward displacement of Chinese aborigines following the last glacial maximum.

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Emigration and ImmigrationGenetics, PopulationAsian PeopleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansIncidenceIndiaNasopharyngeal NeoplasmsSikkim

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PMID21272442
PMCPMC4013339

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