Impact of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on the Administration of Concurrent Chemoradiation for Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Objectives The standard of care for locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is concurrent cisplatin chemoradiotherapy. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be administered to downsize tumors before concurrent treatment to optimize radiation volumes. Our hypothesis was that the use of cisplatin in th...

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Published in:Cureus
Main Authors: Maas, Benjamin, Ho, Cheryl, Hamilton, Sarah, Leedy, Doug, Berthelet, Eric
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cureus 2018
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Otolaryngology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166912/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30280053
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2971
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