Objective To investigate the immunopathological significance of CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells and Th17 cells in peripheral blood of the patients with intermiddle and advanced stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Meth-ods In this study,15 cases of intermiddle and advanced stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma of the observation group and 10 healthy persons of the control group were included to detect their ratio of CD4 + CD25 + T cells and Th17 cells in the peripheral blood by flow cytometry technique,transcriptional activity of Foxp3 and ROR-γt by R...