Nasopharyngeal cancer is a rare type of head and neck cancer. It starts in the upper part of your throat, behind the nose. This area is called the nasopharynx. The nasopharynx is precariously placed ...

A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...

Download the latest edition The top five phyla in the microbiome of the nasopharynx were Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Fusobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes, and their abundances did not ...

We have been studying irradiation of the nasopharynx in asthmatic children since shortly after Gay's original report 4 was published in 1946. A total of 41 children have been so treated. Results have ...

Mark James, age 59, is a distance runner. One of his favorite races is the Blue Ridge Relay through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, his home state. James grew up in rural eastern North ...

A 70-year-old woman with small-cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx, stage T2N0M0, went into complete remission after 6 courses of chemotherapy. Is there a need for follow-up radiotherapy (RT)? If yes, ...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare type of head and neck cancer. Potential risk factors include certain lifestyle factors and exposure to Epstein-Barr virus. Symptoms and treatment vary, but the ...

According to the latest study, the throat behind the nose may determine who suffers with symptoms more severely. People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the ...

Low Incidence of Osteonecrosis in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treated With ALL-97 and ALL-02 Study of Japan Association of Childhood Leukemia Study Group Patients with lrNPC from two ...

The role of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus as an enteric pathogen was investigated in a cohort of 142 patients with SARS who were treated with a standard treatment protocol. Data ...