Familial risk and clustering of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Guangdong, China

Cancer
Wei-Hua JiaYi-Xin Zeng

Abstract

Previous studies have suggested that genetic susceptibility may play an important role in the etiology of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). However, to date, few large-scale studies have been conducted on familial risk and clustering of NPC in a high-risk area of China. In the current study, 2252 patients with NPC who were treated at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangdong Province, China, were identified as probands. Family histories of NPC and other malignancies were observed in first-degree relatives (FDRs) and second-degree relatives, and other information was obtained through interviews. One thousand nine hundred and three Cantonese families were selected for further investigation. To assess familial aggregation, the authors used standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) to measure the risk of NPC for FDRs and compared the observed number of cases with the number predicted by population-based frequencies in the Cantonese population of Hong Kong. The current analysis indicated that families with > or = 3 relatives who had NPC were distributed predominantly among a high-risk subgroup of the Cantonese population in Guangdong Province and that the frequency of these families was 0.68%. An SIR of 2.09 (95% confidence int...Continue Reading

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