Prognostic values of the integrated model incorporating the volume of metastatic regional cervical lymph node and pretreatment serum Epstein-Barr virus DNA copy number in predicting distant metastasis in patients with N1 nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Ji-Jin YaoGuan-Qun ZhouYa-Qin WangSi-Yang WangWang-Jian ZhangYa-Nan JinFan ZhangLi LiLi-Zhi LiuZhi-Bin ChengJun MaZhen-Yu QiYing SunPublished in: Chinese journal of cancer (2017)
GTVnd and serum EBV DNA copy number are independent prognostic factors for predicting distant metastasis in NPC patients with N1 disease. The prognostic model incorporating GTVnd and EBV DNA copy number may improve metastatic risk stratification for this group of patients.
Keyphrases
- copy number
- epstein barr virus
- prognostic factors
- lymph node
- mitochondrial dna
- circulating tumor
- diffuse large b cell lymphoma
- genome wide
- cell free
- single molecule
- small cell lung cancer
- dna methylation
- squamous cell carcinoma
- ejection fraction
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- sentinel lymph node
- gene expression
- radiation therapy