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Table 1 Clinico-pathological characteristics, viral DNA load and plasma concentration of miR-BART17 normalized with miR-cel-39 for samples from NPC patients

From: Consistent high concentration of the viral microRNA BART17 in plasma samples from nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients - evidence of non-exosomal transport

Patient

Gender/age

Origin

First occurrence (FO) or Relapse(R)

TNM

Histology

EBV DNA copy number/ml

miR BART17 copy number/ml

1

M/59

France

FO

cT4N2M0

NKUC

1559

26

2

M/43

Morocco

R

rT0N0M1

NKUC

7065

148

3

M/55

Cambodia

FO

cT3N0M0

NKUC

28

1226

4

M/40

Algeria

FO

cT4N1M0

NKUC

325

8014

5

M/61

Algeria

FO

cT2N2M0

NKUC

466

279

6

M/47

China

FO

cT2N0M0

NKUC

0

4501

7

F/34

Sweden

FO

cT2N3aM1

NKUC

67

11087

8

F/47

Tunisia

FO

cT2N1M0

NKDC

0

739

9

M/40

North Africa

FO

cT1N3bM0

NKUC

40

8824

10

M/51

North Africa

FO

cT3N2M1

NKUC

1142

242506

11

M/41

Turkey

R

rTXN1M0

KSCC

79

128426

12

M/49

France

FO

cT3N1M0

NKUC

0

2725

13

M/65

France

R

rT2N3bM0

NKUC

0

448961

14

M/58

Tunisia

FO*

cT2N0M0

NKUC

351

589

15

M/41

Tunisia

FO*

cT3N2M0

NKUC

1475

4889

16

F/49

France

FO

cT2N2M0

NKUC

9

205985

17

F/39

Morocco

FO

cT4N1M0

NKUC

0

1080

18

M/62

Algeria

R*

rT4N0M0

NKUC

328

161

19

M/66

Algeria

R

rT0N2M0

NKUC

31

25788

20

M/47

Cameroon

R

rTXN2M1

NKUC

21

42

21

M/58

Cameroon

R*

cT2bN1M1

NKUC

8

3220

22

M/60

Morocco

R

rT1N2M0

NKUC

136

4401

23

M/59

Algeria

R

rT1NxM0

NKUC

0

2465

24

M/58

Algeria

FO*

cT1N3bM0

NKUC

20

11

25

F/40

France

R

rT0N0M1

NKUC

0

155002

26

M/61

Cameroon

R*

rT4N0M0

NKUC

0

19881

  1. Samples were collected prior to any treatment (FO), without any treatment in the previous last 6 months (R) or from patients under chemotherapy or chemo-radiotherapy (FO* and R*). All patients had active disease at the time of blood sample collection. NKUC: non keratinizing undifferentiated carcinoma; NKDC: non-keratinizing differentiated carcinoma; KSCC: keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma.