A carcinoma arising from the nasopharyngeal epithelium. It includes the following types: keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma, nonkeratinizing carcinoma (differentiated and undifferentiated), basaloid squamous cell carcinoma, and papillary adenocarcinoma. The disease is nasopharyngeal carcinoma (MONDO_0015459, a Monarch Disease Ontology id). Also known as: NPC, carcinoma of nasopharynx, carcinoma of the nasopharynx, nasopharynx carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx.