title: [The level of diagnosis and treatment results in nasopharyngeal cancer patients].
abstract: A group of twenty patients with nasopharyngeal cancer treated in Lower Silesian Oncological Centre from year 1991 to 1995 have been presented. In seven of them the extent of the primary tumor was small (T1 or T2), but the rest of them (thirteen) had large extent of it (T3 or T4). In seven patients metastases to the cervical lymphonodes were not observed. The histopathology exam showed in eight cases well differentiated carcinoma, in another eight--lymphoepitelioma, in three--undifferentiated carcinoma and in one case adenocarcinoma. All of the patients were treated with radiotherapy using variable schedules of fractionaction, and three of them were given chemotherapy. Only seven (35%) are still alive without symptoms of disease. Such unsatisfactory results should be ascribed to a very high extent of illness in most patients, a result of coming to the doctor late and of big difficulties in diagnosis. Only several patients (20%) had CT of the head made before the treatment, which could be a reason for an incorrect location of the planning target volume (PTV).
authors.affiliation: Katedra Onkologii Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gisterek
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Winkler-Spytkowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Poziom diagnostyki a wyniki leczenia chorych na raka nosowej cześci gardła.