2023 Volume 69 Issue 2 Pages 75-81
In 2018, the new TNM classification (AJCC 8th edition) was introduced. We investigated the prognosis of nasopharyngeal cancer in 45 nasopharyngeal cancer patients who underwent first-line therapy at the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Kyushu University between January 2010 and January 2020. There were 31 male and 14 female patients, ranging in age from 12 to 88 years old, with a median age of 59 years old. Of these, 40 patients with nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma were evaluated for their five-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) as well as prognostic factors. The 5-year OS rate was 75.5%, and the 5-year PFS rate was 64.3%. As prognostic factors, there were no significant differences in outcome by stage, histological type, and Epstein-Barr virus positivity. In addition, it was considered necessary to further investigate the optimal dose of cisplatin for chemoradiotherapy combined with cisplatin, which is the main treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer.
