Re: Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, few questions
- From: "Steph" <steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:34:23 GMT
"Lance" <lltbhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to provide support for a friend (southern Chinese parents but
> he's born in the USA). A diagnosis has been made by biopsy but staging is
> not complete. He and his wife just learned about it so they're still in
> those initial awful days after diagnosis. My past experience with cancer
> is my wife's breast cancer.
>
> All of the papers I read report the results of treatment on locally
> advanced cancer. Why only locally advanced? Is there no T1 nasopharyngeal
> cancer?
>
There is, but it's much more common to make the diagnosis at stage 2 or 3,
because the commonest symptom is neck nodes.
> What's the current gold standard treatment? I see both radiotherapy-only
> and concurrent chemoradiotherapy mentioned.
>
Those are the gold standard
> How do they determine nodal status? This is important in breast cancer, so
> I assume the same goes for NP too.
Physical exam, CT scan, maybe PET
>
> Lance
> *****
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