Abstract:Background: The northeast of Iran is one of the endemic regions of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between nasopharyngeal carcinoma and HTLV-1 infection in northeast Iran, an endemic area for HTLV-1. Methods: In this case-control study, paraffin-embedded nasopharyngeal tissue samples of patients with definitive nasopharyngeal carcinoma were evaluated for the presence of the HTLV-1 genome by polymerase chain reaction retrospectively. Results: Thirty… Show more
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