Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Long term follow-up of 83 patients

Table 1 Distribution of tumor and nodal status

Stage	T1	T2	T3	T4	Total
N0	3	3	7	7	20
N1	5	5	5	7	22
N2	5	6	7	12	30
N3	0	3	0	8	11
Total	13	17	19	34	83
%	15.6	20.5	22.9	41	100%

Table 2 Iatrogenic complications of the treatment

Treatment	Complications	Nb	%
Radiotherapy	Radioepithelitis	23	28.4
	Radiodermatitis	7	8.8
	Xerostomia	14	17.64
	Osteoradionecrosis	2	2.9
	Cerebral radionecrosis	1	1.2
Chemotherapy	Pancytopenia	14	17.64
	Renal failure	1	1.2

Table 3 The sites of metastasis

Site of the metastasis	n	%
Bone	3	3.6
Bone + liver	4	4.8
Orbit	1	1.2
Liver	2	2.4
Brain	1	1.2
Bone + liver + lung	1	1.2
Total	12	14.40

Table 4 Comparison with some southern Asian nasopharyngeal carcinoma series

	Our study	Wang et al[20] (a)	Goto et al[21] (b)	Kawashima et al[22] (c)
Stage T1	15.6	10	37	30
Stage T2	20.5	14	30	18
Stage T3	22.9	20	15	18
Stage T4	41	56	18	35
Overall survival rate	97%	88%	78%	87%
Metastasis	14%	18%	11%	24%