Multidiscpinary Approach in Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Chemotherapy in Advanced Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Drs. Ali and Al-Sarraf have prepared a comprehensive review of current data on the role of chemotherapy in the management of nasopharyngeal cancer, a tumor of epithelial origin with a distinctive geographic and ethnic distribution. Although this disease has traditionally been categorized as a head and neck neoplasm, its natural history and responsiveness to therapy differ considerably from thos...

Chemotherapy in advanced nasopharyngeal cancer.

Chemotherapy is an integral part of treatment for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Chemotherapy can achieve long-term survival rates of up to 15% to 20%, even in patients with recurrent or metastatic disease. In the majority of studies reported, patients with previously untreated locally advanced stage III and IV nasopharyngeal carcinoma showed improved local control, decreased systemic ...

Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treatment

Endoscopy of Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is a unique disease with increasing interest for many physicians due to its unusual etiology, histology, and epidemiology. The recent era of fiberoptic endoscopy now provides the clinician with better tools for the screening, diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of NPC. The use of high resolution flexible and rigid nasopharyngoscopy gives the physician an opportunity fo...

Salvage surgery for nasopharyngeal cancer

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a special type of head and neck cancer with a widely variable geographical variation in incidence. The central location of the tumor inside the head coupled with the radiosensitivity of the tumor to radiation made radiation therapy the first choice in primary treatment of NPC. Advances in radiotherapy and chemotherapy have markedly improved the local control of...