Recent studies have reported that LMP2A and LMP1 play a role in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, thereby, playing a critical role in the onset of cancer30, and IHC expression of LMP1 of EBV has been recently reported in the prostate carcinoma samples31. This evidence concerns the gene PDLIM7 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.