In order to explore molecular and cellular processes in the very early stages of carcinogenesis, the link with chronic inflammation and the factors involved, we have used a transgenic mouse model of multistage epithelial carcinogenesis wherein LMP1 (of the nasopharyngeal carcinoma viral strain: LMP1CAO), is expressed in epithelia [20]. Here, PDLIM7 is linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma.