Emerging treatment options for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Drug Design, Development and Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-52

  Zhang, Lu ^a   Chen, Qiu Yan ^a   Liu, Huai ^a   Tang, Lin Quan ^a   Mai, Hai Qiang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Immunotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Molecular targeted agents; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognostic markers

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIRUBICIN; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN 3A; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN 3B; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN 3C; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINE; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1; FLUOROURACIL; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; SUNITINIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADVANCED CANCER; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT FAILURE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FAILURE FREE SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEUKOPENIA; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUCOSAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEPHROTOXICITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION NECROSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SELECTIVE NECK IRRADIATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE NECROSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR VOLUME; XEROSTOMIA;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED AGENTS; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; PROGNOSTIC MARKERS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG DESIGN; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84873373573     PISSN: 11778881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S30753     Document Type: Review

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