Background: The foremost problems of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) management are high loco-regional remission, local recurrence and spreading rate post therapy. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been done for treatment of tumors less than 1 cm in size and depth in a very diffzcult location, where radical excision by surgery was not possible. The aim of th is study is determining 5-year-overall s…
Background: There are no data on survival rate of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) on complementary alternative medicine in Indonesia. The aim of this study was to analyze the survival rate of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) on conventional (modern) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments. Methods: Across-sectional observational study of 33 NPC patients …
Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a multifactorial genetic disease, characteristically endemic and shows considerable differences in its geographical distribution. Besides infection with EBV, genetic factors such as polymorphisms of TCR-β gene contribute to the incidence of NPC. This study investigates the association of TCR-β gene polymorphisms with individual susceptibility to d…