[The 5-year death analysis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with radiotherapy].
OBJECTIVE
To study the main death cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated with radiotherapy for 5 years.


METHODS
An analysis had been made to evaluated the 5-year death in 165 patients with NPC treated with radiotherapy.


RESULTS
The death correlates strongly with the clinical stage, type and radiation dose (P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
The distant metastasis and local recurrence are the main death cause of NPC.
Zhou
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Department of Radiotherapy, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College, Kunming 650031.
Yang
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Tang
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Liu
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Pan
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies