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Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2011 Nov 2;3(107):107fs7. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002878

Table 1.

EBV by the numbers. Estimated new cases of EBV-associated cancers worldwide per year (9, 10).

Cancer	Number of cases	Number of cases attributable to EBV
Burkitt lymphoma
Developed countries	400	100
Less-developed countries	7800	6600
Gastric carcinoma	933,900	84,050
Hodgkin lymphoma	62,400	28,600
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma	80,000	78,100
Total		197,450