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Preliminary report of the asian-oceanian clinical oncology association randomized trial comparing cisplatin and epirubicin followed by radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in the treatment of patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Daniel T. T. Chua; Jonathan S. T. Sham; Damon Choy; Virchan Lorvidhaya; Yupa Sumitsawan; Sumitra Thongprasert; Visoot Vootiprux; Arkom Cheirsilpa; Tahir Azhar; Ary H. Reksodiputro


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
166 KB
Volume
83
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis


BACKGROUND.

The aim of this trial was to compare the outcome achieved with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy to that achieved with radiotherapy alone for patients with locoregionally advanced undifferentiated or poorly differentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) meeting one of the following criteria: Ho's T3 disease, Ho's N2-N3 disease, or lymph node size Ն3 cm.