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Does concurrent chemoradiotherapy preceded by chemotherapy improve survival in locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer patients? Experience from Ghana.

Joel YarneyNaa A AryeeteyAlice MensahEmmanuel D KitcherVerna VanderpuyeCharles AidooKenneth Baidoo
Published in: Cancers of the head & neck (2017)
The study revealed that concurrent chemoradiation alone yields better disease free survival compared to chemotherapy given prior to it. There is however no difference in overall survival between the two regimes.
Keyphrases
  • locally advanced
  • free survival
  • rectal cancer
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • radiation therapy
  • phase ii study
  • clinical trial
  • single cell
  • lymph node