Pan Xin-Bin, Zhu Xiao-Dong
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, P. R. China.
Chin J Cancer. 2012 Dec;31(12):573-8. doi: 10.5732/cjc.011.10433. Epub 2012 Jul 4.
The efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy on stage IIb nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC) remains unclear. Conventional two-dimensional radiotherapy combined with concurrent chemotherapy can improve the overall survival, progression-free survival, recurrence-free survival, and distant metastasis-free survival of patients with stage IIb NPC. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy without concurrent chemotherapy also provides good outcomes for patients with stage IIb NPC. This article summarizes the features of stage IIb NPC and reviews the role of chemotherapy in this subgroup of NPC.
新辅助化疗和辅助化疗对IIb期鼻咽癌(NPC)的疗效仍不明确。传统二维放疗联合同期化疗可提高IIb期NPC患者的总生存期、无进展生存期、无复发生存期和无远处转移生存期。不进行同期化疗的调强放疗也可为IIb期NPC患者带来良好疗效。本文总结了IIb期NPC的特点,并综述了化疗在该亚组NPC中的作用。