Therapeutic implications of Epstein–Barr virus infection for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 721-736

  Hutajulu, Susanna Hilda ^a   Kurnianda, Johan ^a   Tan, I Bing ^a,b   Middeldorp, Jaap M ^c  

^a GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epigenetic therapy; Immunotherapy; Viral lytic induction therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ARGININE BUTYRATE; AZACITIDINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN 1; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; PEPTIDE VACCINE; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALGANCICLOVIR; VALPROIC ACID; VASCULOTROPIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CPG ISLAND; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 84930673740     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S47434     Document Type: Review

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