Update on Medical Therapies of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common head and neck cancer in most of the countries of the Mediterranean Area (MA) and North Africa (NA). Its incidence is variable from <1 in sporadic areas to 2-7/100000 in NA and MA to 20-30/100000 in Southern China and Southeast Asia (Boussen et al,2010; Lee et al, 1992). It’s different from other head and neck cancers due to its particular epidemiology, natural history and therapeutic considerations (Boussen et al, 2010; Lee et al, 1992).