Objective To study long-term outcome and prognostic factors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by intensity modulated radiotherapy. Methods A total of 299 patients with non-disseminated nasopharyngeal carcinoma who received initial radiotherapy were analyzed retrospectively. The primary lesion and the upper neck received 70 Gy (5 fraction per week in all 30 fraction) by intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The lower neck and the supraclavicular fossa was given 54 Gy (5 fraction per week in all 30 fraction) by a single anterior tangent field with spinal cord block. A median dose of 9.2 Gy (4-20. Gy) was given to the residual primary lesion by IMRT or X-knife. The Kaplan-Meier method was used for calculating the overall survival (OS), disease progression-free survival (DPFS), distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), Log-rank test was used for evaluating the differences between groups. Multivariate prognostic factor was analyzed by Cox method. Results The follow-up rate was 99.7%. 119 patients were followed-up more than with 5 years. The 5-year OS for stage Ⅰ+Ⅱ, stage Ⅲ and stage Ⅳ were 97.1%,82.7% and 52.2%(χ2=46.19,P=0.000), the 5 years DPFS were 100%,77.6% and 57.7%(χ2=23.29,P=0.000),DMFS were 100%,82.3%,63.7%(χ2=16.57,P=0.000) respectively. The 5 year OS, DPFS and DMFS of male and female were 70.7% vs 94.1%(χ2=16.82,P=0.000), 71.5% vs 87.3%(χ2=4.74,P=0.029) and 77.2% vs 89.7%(χ2=4.38,P=0.036) respectively. For patients who were younger than 45-years, the male had a significantly unfavorable 5-year OS (66.8% vs. 91.2%,χ2=7.07,P=0.008), DPFS (59.9% vs. 91.2%,χ2=7.72,P=0.005) and DMFS (66.4% vs. 94.0%,χ2=8.46,P=0.004);For patients who were old than 45-years, only OS was significantly different between male and female (72.2% vs. 96.0%,χ2=10.19, P=0.001). Multivariate analysis showed theindependent prognostic factors for OS, DPFS, DMFS, were gender (χ2=14.27,5.72,17.64,P=0.000, 0.017,0.000), TNM stage (χ2=5.33,15.70,10.57,P=0.021,0.000,0.001) and lymph nodes capsular invasion (χ2=4.30,11.08,21.24,P=0.038,0.001,0.000). Intracranial invasion and supraclavicular lymph node metastasis were independent prognostic factors for OS (χ2=13.32,5.38,P=0.000,0.020). Conclusions The TNM stage, lymph nodes capsular invasion and gender are independent prognostic factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by intensity-modulated radiotherapy. The patients of younger than 45-years own a worse outcome.
XIAO Guang-li,QIU Xi-bin,WANG Wei-hua et al. long-term outcome and prognostic factors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by intensity modulated radiotherapy[J]. Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2012, 21(6): 488-491.
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