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ArticleOncoTargets and therapy2019

NACT+IMRT versus NACT+IMRT+CCRT in locoregionally advanced NPC patients: a retrospective study.

Xialin Chen, Xiang Zhu, Jianfang Wang, Jianjiang Liu, Rong Ji

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Article in OncoTargets and therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xialin ChenDepartment of Oncology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, China.
Xiang ZhuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310022, China.
Jianfang WangDepartment of Oncology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, China.
Jianjiang LiuDepartment of Oncology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, China.
Rong JiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, China, jirongsxsh@yeah.net.
Shaoxing People's Hospital · CNShaoxing Second Hospital · CNZhejiang Cancer Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe outcomes and safety profiles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) + intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) or NACT + IMRT + concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients were retrospectively analyzed. PATIENTS AND

methodsBetween 2010 and 2014, 125 patients with stage III-IVb NPC, who were treated with IMRT (36, 28.8%) or IMRT + CCRT (89, 71.2%) following NACT, participated in the research. There were grade 3-4 toxicities during NACT or radiotherapy (RT) in NACT + IMRT group and NACT + IMRT + CCRT group.

resultsMRI within 3 months demonstrated that no patient suffered with progressive disease, 116 patients (92.8%) achieved a response rate (RR) with the complete response (CR) rate of 70.4% (88/125) and partial response (PR) rate of 22.4% (28/125), and nine patients (7.2%) showed stable disease (SD) at the primary site and metastatic nodes. Compared with NACT + IMRT group, patients in NACT + IMRT + CCRT group did not show significantly better RR (93.3% vs 91.7%,

conclusionTo sum up, no significant difference was observed in combined RR, CR rate, LRFS, DMFS, PFS, or OS between the two groups.

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advanced nasopharyngeal carcinomaconcurrent chemoradiotherapyintensity modulated radiotherapyneoadjuvant chemotherapy

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