Minimally invasive surgery alone compared with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for primary stage I nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
You-Ping LiuXing LvXiong ZouYi-Jun HuaRui YouQi YangLe XiaShao-Yan GuoWen HuMeng-Xia ZhangSi-Yuan ChenMei LinYu-Long XieLi-Zhi LiuRui SunPei-Yu HuangWei FanXiang GuoMing-Huang HongMing-Yuan ChenPublished in: Cancer communications (London, England) (2019)
ENPG alone was associated with promising long-term survival outcomes, low medical costs, and satisfactory QOL and might therefore be an alternative strategy for treating newly diagnosed localized stage I NPC patients who refused radiotherapy. However, the application of ENPG should be prudent, and prospective clinical trials were needed to further verify the results.