The first report on incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Sabah Borneo

• Main Authors: Eugene Hung Chih Wong, Heng Yao Tan, Tracey May Dompok, Luqman Afiq Mohamad Ishak, Siow Ping Loong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Karger Publishers 2021
• Subjects: GN537-674 Ethnic groups and races; RC254-282 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology Including cancer and carcinogens
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30780/1/The%20first%20report%20on%20incidence%20of%20nasopharyngeal%20carcinoma%20in%20Sabah%20Borneo-ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30780/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34148048/; https://doi.org/10.1159/000516597

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the fourth common cancer in Malaysia. A few studies have looked into the incidence of NPC in Malaysia in general, but there has been no published data on its incidence in Sabah specifically, where NPC is very common among the population. The aim of this study is to...