title: [Prognostic factors of 60 nasal cavity carcinoma patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the treatment modalities and the prognostic factors of nasal cavity carcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was done on 60 nasal cavity carcinoma patients treated from 1985 to 1992. Thirty-four patients received radiotherapy alone and 26 patients received surgery plus radiotherapy. Kaplan-Meier method was used to evaluate the survival, Log-rank test to assess the difference between these two groups and Cox proportional hazard model by multivariate analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall 5- and 10-year survival rates were 55.9% and 36.9% respectively. The 5- and 10-year survival rates were 79.0% and 57.9% in patients with early lesions (stage I, II) and 44.1% and 26.0% in patients with advanced lesions (stage III, IV) (P = 0.005). There was no significant difference in the survival rate between radiotherapy alone and radiotherapy plus surgery (P = 0.33). Patients with squamous cell carcinoma had obviously poorer survival rate than patients with adenocarcinoma (P = 0.04). Patients with positive nodes had a lower survival rate compared with negative node patients (P = 0.09).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Histological type and clinical stage, but not method of treatment or neck node metastasis, are the important prognostic factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
authors.forename: Weihan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Fangyun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Dezhu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Dandan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Zhida
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Guoying
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009296:Nasal Cavity; D009333:Neck; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate