CRP and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: In a large retrospective study including 7251 patients, Huang et al. established risk competing risk monograms for NPC patients predicting a higher cause-specific mortality for patients with WHO I/II NPC (vs. WHO III), advanced T or N stage, high EBV-DNA level, high lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level, and high C-reactive protein (CRP) level [48].