Nasopharyngeal cancer is SCC the vast majority of the time, so the first words describe location and the second the specific cancer type. NP cancers have historically been the realm of smokers, nickel factory workers, (knowledge derived from the excellent Norwegian medical database that tracks people's vocations along with their etiology) and people that have a persistent Epstein-Barr virus infection. Treatments for them are the same as for oral cancers, drugs are the same, and with the exception of an inch or so of anatomy, they are just like the rest of us. Head and neck cancers are primarily oral cancers (85%) thyroid and laryngeal cancers (about 12%) and the remainder mostly NPC, with a percent or two tossed in as rare auditory cancers, and other things only those they get them have even heard of. So you are family here in this group. Not totally surprising, an article was published in the last 6 months in a peer reviewed journal, documenting a NPC that was definitely back tracked to HPV16. One oddity about head and neck cancers is that brain cancer is not one of them. It is a cancer designation all unto itself.