AKR1B10 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: The percentage of AKR1B10-positive specimens was 44.5 % (133/299) in the nasopharyngeal cancer tissue compared with 82.4 % (42/51) in benign specimens (p < 0.01) and 98.7 % (235/238) in para-carcinoma specimens (p < 0.01) (Table 1).