title: [The 5-year death analysis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with radiotherapy].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College, Kunming 650031.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: 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