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- Title
Pediatric nasopharyngeal cancer with repeated oligometastases involving the bone, liver and distant lymph nodes who achieved cure after radiotherapy.
- Authors
Takayuki Ohguri; Sho Kakinouchi; Hajime Imada; Atsuji Matsuyama; Katsuya Yahara; Sota Nakahara; Nobusuke Hohchi; Hideaki Suzuki; Yukunori Korogi
- Abstract
Systemic chemotherapy is a standard treatment for Stage IVc nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Stage IVc NPC patients with oligometastases have a better prognosis, and local therapy has an important role in further development of the disease. However, the efficacy of local therapy to the metastases in patients with multiple-site and/or multiple-organ metastases is limited due to the aggressive behavior of the tumor. We report a NPC case in a pediatric patient with repeated oligometastases involving the bone, liver and distant lymph nodes who achieved 10-year disease free status after initial chemotherapy and radiotherapy to all the metastases. This very rare case demonstrated that radiotherapy to oligometastatic lesions have a potential to cure repeated oligometastases which involved multiple-organ metastases in a pediatric NPC with stage IVc.
- Subjects
NASOPHARYNX cancer; CHILDHOOD cancer; RADIOTHERAPY; LYMPH nodes; CANCER chemotherapy; METASTASIS
- Publication
Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, 2020, Vol 82, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0027-7622
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.18999/nagjms.82.1.135