Open AccessMeta-analysis of concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Author(s) -
Yueshu Wang,
Wei Ding,
Chuang Chen,
Zhihao Niu,
Ming Pan,
Hong Zhang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.168183
Subject(s) - nasopharyngeal carcinoma , medicine , confidence interval , oncology , odds ratio , chemoradiotherapy , radiation therapy , meta analysis
With radiotherapy (RT) alone, the five-year overall survival (OS) rate for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) can only reach 40%, the ratio of distant metastasis (DM) is 36-40%. This meta-analysis was performed to compare the clinical efficacy of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) with RT alone in the treatment of locoregionally advanced NPC.