CANCER, VIRUS MAY BE LINKED.Byline: Tim Brown Daily News Staff Writer Dodgers center fielder Brett Butler has been told that there could be a correlation between his type of cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma nasopharyngeal carcinoma Nasopharyngeal cancer A rare malignancy, which is endemic to regions of southern China and Southeast Asia; persons with serologic markers for EBV–IgA antibodies against EBV capsid antigen and/or neutralizing antibodies against , and a bout he had seven years ago with Epstein-Barr virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpesvirus that is the major cause of infectious mononucleosis and is associated with a number of cancers, particularly lymphomas in immunosuppressed persons, including persons with AIDS. , or chronic fatigue syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), collection of persistent, debilitating symptoms, the most notable of which is severe, lasting fatigue. In other countries it is known variously as myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and . Doctors are less convinced that the cancer could have been caused by Butler's brief use of smokeless tobacco smokeless tobacco, n chewing tobacco (leaves) or tobacco powder (snuff) that allows the nicotine to be absorbed through the mucous membrane of the oral cavity or digestive tract. It is related to a high risk of oral cancer. 15 years ago, Butler said. Butler, 38, will check into Emory University Hospital on Monday afternoon, then have surgery early Tuesday morning to remove 50 lymph nodes in his neck, as well as a piece of muscle tissue. He will remain in the hospital for much of the week, and the biopsy results should be known within four or five days of the procedure. Radiation treatment - five times a week for six weeks - likely will begin within two weeks of the procedure. |
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