Research on chemoradiotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- VernacularTitle:鼻咽癌放化综合治疗进展
- Author:
Chaosu HU
;
Tingting XU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
nasopharyngeal carcinoma;
chemoradiotherapy
- From:
China Oncology
2006;0(09):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is the commonest head and neck cancer in China and especially sensitive to both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But radiotherapy alone has disappointing effect to local advanced cases. Nevertheless,chemoradiotherapy provides long term survival. This paper summarized the current status of the different ways of chemoradiotherapy such as induction,concurrent,adjuvant chemotherapy.
