Nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy: clinical outcomes and patterns of failure among subsets of 8th AJCC stage IVa.

Cheng-Long HuangRui GuoJun-Yan LiCheng XuYan-Ping MaoLi TianAi-Hua LinYing SunJun MaLing-Long Tang

Published in: European radiology (2019)

• In nasopharyngeal carcinoma, T4N0-2 patients tended to develop local relapse, whereas T1-4N3 patients were more likely to develop distant metastasis. • In terms of overall survival, T4N0-2 patients had better prognosis than T1-4N3 patients. • T4N0-2 should be separated from T1-4N3 in the UICC/AJCC staging system.

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end stage renal disease
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ejection fraction
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prognostic factors
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