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Cervical adenocarcinoma in women with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
Author(s) -
Singh Pritam,
Ilancheran A.,
Ratnam S. S.,
Kim LimTan Soo,
O'Reilly Aidan P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19890901)64:5<1152::aid-cncr2820640531>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - medicine , adenocarcinoma , cervical cancer , nasopharyngeal carcinoma , cervical carcinoma , carcinoma , cancer , oncology , radiation therapy
Multiple primary cancers account for only 0.38% of all cases in the Singapore Cancer Registry. The close temporal association of nasopharygneal carcinoma (NPC) in three Chinese women with uterine cervical adenocarcinoma was observed in our department within a 3‐month period; one other case was extracted from the local literature. Although NPC is a common neoplasm in local Chinese women, uterine cervical adenocarcinomas comprise only 8% of cervical cancers locally. The close occurrence of these cancers does not seem to be related to the therapy used for cervical cancer and suggests that an association of the Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV) with uterine cervical adenocarcinoma should be further investigated.