Objective To observe the clinical effects of radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in the treatment of nasal and Waldeyer ring natural killer (NK)/T cell lymphoma and to analyze the prognostic factors. Methods Between January 20, 2000 and December 21, 2010, 109 patients with nasal NK/T cell lymphoma and 21 patients with Waldeyer ring NK/T cell lymphoma were admitted to our hospital;the diagnosis was confirmed by immunohistochemistry. According to the Ann Arbor staging system, 116 patients were classified as stage ⅠE, and 14 as stage ⅡE. Thirty patients received radiotherapy alone;2 patients received chemotherapy alone;98 patients received radiochemotherapy. Results The follow-up rate was 100%. Seventy-eight patients were followed up for at least 5 years. The complete remission (CR) rate was 89.2% in all patients. The CR rates of stage ⅠE patients and stage ⅡE patients were 88.8% and 92.9%, respectively (χ2=0.02, P=0.837). The CR rates of patients receiving radiotherapy alone and patients receiving radiochemotherapy were 86% and 96%, respectively (χ2=1.44, P=0.230). The five-year overall survival (OS) rate and disease-free survival (DFS) rate of all patients were 58.0% and 57.2%, respectively. The five-year OS rates of stage ⅠE patients and stage ⅡE patients were 60.6% and 36.3%, respectively (χ2=0.25, P=0.615);the five-year DFS rates of stage ⅠE patients and stage ⅡE patients were 59.7% and 36.3%, respectively (χ2=0.21, P=0.648). The five-year OS rates of patients receiving radiotherapy alone and patients receiving radiochemotherapy were 70.0% and 48.4%, respectively (χ2=0.01, P=0.933);the five-year DFS rates of patients receiving radiotherapy alone and patients receiving radiochemotherapy were 65.6% and 48.4%, respectively (χ2=0.09, P=0.764). The grade 3—4 toxicity rates of radiotherapy alone and radiochemotherapy were 6.7% and 54.1%, respectively (χ2=41.38, P=0.002). The radiation dose to the primary lesion and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group(ECOG) score were correlated with OS (χ2=3.18, P=0.005;χ2=2.97, P=0.008). Conclusions
The clinical effect of radiochemotherapy is similar to that of radiotherapy alone in the patients with stage ⅠE
LUO Jia-lin,LIU Lu-ying,WU Run-ye et al. Prognostic analysis of 130 patients with nasal and Waldeyer ring NK/T cell lymphoma treated by radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy[J]. Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2013, 22(3): 180-183.
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