Study on association between the distribution of ABO blood type and nasopharyngeal carcinoma / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate possible association between the incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC)and ABO blood type.Methods pathologically confirmed NPC patients(NPC group) with a serologically determined blood group in Sun Yatsen University Cancer Center were reviewed retrospectively.The distribution of blood groups of the NPC group were compared with the distribution of blood groups of healthy donors(control group) admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou TCM University in the year 2013.Results There was no significant difference between NPC group and the control group in terms of distribution of ABO blood groups(P=0.884),neither with NPC stages(P=0.506).Conclusion In this study,we found that blood type has no association with an increased risk of NPC and NPC stages in a population of Southern China.