Multimodality Treatment May Improve the Survival Rate of Patients with Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Good Performance Status.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the benefit of chemotherapy, combined with palliative radiotherapy (PRT) and other local treatments to the metastatic sites, for patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) who had a performance status 0-2. We conducted a retrospective review...

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Main Authors: Wei Zheng, Jingfeng Zong, Chaobin Huang, Juhui Chen, Junxin Wu, Chuanben Chen, Shaojun Lin, Jianji Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4710536?pdf=render