Maintenance chemotherapy using S-1 following definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with N3 nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Abstract Background Patients with N3 stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) are at high risk for treatment failure. This study aims to assess the efficacy of maintenance chemotherapy (MC) using S-1 (MC-S1), a novel oral fluoropyrimidine agent, following definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) using intensi...

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Main Authors: Jingfeng Zong, Hanchuan Xu, Bijuan Chen, Qiaojuan Guo, Yun Xu, Chuanben Chen, Youliang Weng, Wei Zheng, Jianji Pan, Shaojun Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1387-9