PRACTICAL ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 92-96.doi: 10.11904/j.issn.1002-3070.2019.01.017

• Review • Previous Articles    

Advanced in re-radiotherapy for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma

ZHANG Pan, ZHANG Di, DAI Xiaobo   

  1. Department of Oncology,The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University,Chongqing 400016,China
  • Received:2018-06-14 Online:2019-02-28 Published:2019-02-13

Abstract: Local and/or regional recurrence is a common cause of the failure of primary radical radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma,and it is also a clinically existing treatment problem.Re-radiation therapy is one of main effective means of treatment for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.The article summarizes the recent domestic and abroad literatures on radiotherapy in vitro(including conventional two-dimensional,three-dimensional conformal,intensity-modulated radiotherapy),stereotactic radiotherapy,brachytherapy,proton beam and heavy ion therapy for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma,and summarized the advantages and disadvantages of different radiotherapies as well as their efficacies.

Key words: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Recurrent, Re-radiotherapy

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