Clinical features and survival outcomes between ascending and descending types of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the intensity-modulated radiotherapy era: A big-data intelligence platform-based analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: In the IMRT era, recurrence patterns differed across tumor types. Type D NPC had a more aggressive clinical course and worse outcomes compared with type A NPC. PMID: 31102988 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - May 14, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Yao JJ, Qi ZY, Liu ZG, Jiang GM, Xu XW, Chen SY, Zhu FT, Zhang WJ, Lawrence WR, Ma J, Zhou GQ, Sun Y Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research