Benefits of local tumor excision and pharyngectomy on the survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients: a retrospective observational study based on SEER database

Benefits of local tumor excision and pharyngectomy on the survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients: a retrospective observational study based on SEER database

Abstract Background There is ongoing debate about surgery of primary site in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. Methods 3919 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma identified in the SEER registry between 2004 and 2013. The benefit of surgery of primary nasopharynx tumor site on overall and cancer-sp...

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Main Authors: Jian Sun, Zhongying Huang, Zheyu Hu, Rui Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Translational Medicine
Subjects:
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
Epidemiology and End results (SEER) database
Propensity score
Local tumor excision
Pharyngectomy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-017-1204-x

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