Indian clinical practice consensus guidelines for the management of nasopharyngeal cancer: Update 2022

Patients with early-stage nasopharyngeal cancer are treated with definitive radiotherapy alone, including both sides of the neck and retropharyngeal nodes. For patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer, the recommendation is concurrent chemoradiotherapy with additional chemotherapy...

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Published inCancer research, statistics, and treatment (Online) Vol. 7; no. Suppl 1; pp. S27 - S30
Main Authors Gairola, Munish, Prabhash, Kumar, Babu, K Govind, Chaturvedi, Pankaj, Kuriakose, Moni, Birur, Praveen, Anand, Anil K., Kaushal, Ashish, Mahajan, Abhishek, Syiemlieh, Judita, Singhal, Manish, Ramachandra, Prakash, Goyal, Sumit, John, Subashini, Nayyar, Rohit, Patil, Vijay M., Rao, Vishal, Noronha, Vanita, Roshan, Vikas, Rath, G.K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 01.01.2024
Edition2
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Special Article
Indian guidelines
nasopharyngeal cancer
chemotherapy
recommendations
Chemoradiation
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ISSN2590-3233
2590-3225
DOI10.4103/crst.crst_123_23

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Summary:Patients with early-stage nasopharyngeal cancer are treated with definitive radiotherapy alone, including both sides of the neck and retropharyngeal nodes. For patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer, the recommendation is concurrent chemoradiotherapy with additional chemotherapy (either before or after chemoradiotherapy). Adding targeted therapies like nimotuzumab to concurrent chemoradiation in the management of nasopharyngeal cancer has been shown to improve overall survival with excellent safety and tolerability.
ISSN:2590-3233
2590-3225
DOI:10.4103/crst.crst_123_23